Well he could be in Vigo Owen or Greene counties as the death depending
on where in Clay Co they lived..
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:11:34 -0800 (PST) Laura Ellen Mitchell
<lmitch(a)iquest.net> writes:
On the Indiana Clay Rootsweb page, once you choose Clay County
Genealogy
Online, as you scroll down, there is a choice of clicking on Clay
County
Deaths. When I did so, I found a death for: Cress, Harrison, Oct.
6,
1890 age 6 mos This seems VERY likely to be Harry Criss, born
the same
year.
I then sent off to the Clay County Health Dept. for a death
certificate.
They can't find him under several suggested spellings - Cress, Criss,
etc.
He does not appear in the WPA death records for Clay County. Does
anyone
know where this information on the web page came from? It is very
important, in that I think he is the last child of my
great-grandfather,
John C. Criss, whom he calls "Harry" in a list of his children that
was
written in 1915. I did not know this child existed until the Civil War
records came from the National Archives. After Harry's name it says
"dead". Harry was born Apr. 13, 1890. A WPA birth record shows a
different mother for him than my great-grandmother, but that could be
a
mistake like many others in the records. So why can't I find a death
record
if he appears in this Clay County Deaths list? But then, why doesn't
he
appear in the WPA records? If I could obtain a death certificate, it
might
clear up as to who really was his mother - Annie Elizabeth Kendall
Newton
Asbaugh Criss or Mary Henley. So my first priority is to find out
where the
website info came from, if anyone can help.
Laura E. Mitchell lmitch(a)iquest.net
2522 College Ave. lmitchell(a)vigo.lib.in.us
Terre Haute, IN 47803
(812) 234-0692
Visit the Vigo County Public Library Webpage at:
http://vax1.vigo.lib.in.us
or
http://www.vigo.lib.in.us
Genealogists: Check the VCPL webpage for an index of obituaries in
the
Terre Haute newspaper, 1903-1966,
http://vax1.vigo.lib.in.us/~obits/index.htm
VCPL now has the 1820 census of Vigo County online:
http://vax1.vigo.lib.in.us/1820/index.htm
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