The mortality records for Jackson County, Indiana are kept at the Jackson
County Health Department located at 207 N. Pine Street in Seymour, Indiana,
not Brownstown. The people at the health department there are really great.
They have been a lot of help to me.
Mikel McQueen
mmcqueen(a)kiva.net
At 05:45 PM 12/18/99 , you wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Neal O. Wayman <nwayman(a)custom.net>
To: <INJACKSO-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:00 AM
Subject: [INJACKSO] Jackson Co. records
> Mortality records, are kept at Brownstown. The Brownstown library has
> some of this information in published books of the Brownstown Courthouse
> records. Now, Seymour library has a phenominal resource of information
> also. But to get the real
> copy you have to go to the Courthouse in Brownstown.
> My family and my husbands family is from Jackson Co., but we don't live
> there, so
> I won't be able to do any lookups for you. There is a Bev Weddel who
> lives there
> might do some lookups for you. I don't know what she charges, but I'm
> sure it will
> be a reasonable charge.
> Charolotte ? at the Seymour Public Library might also help.
> Unfortunately I lost
> many of my emails a couple of weeks ago, so I don't have either of their
> addresses.
> Jackson Co., is online and you could ask them for either of these women,
> or for
> someone else to do research for you.
> Jackson Co., also has a very nice Genealogy Research Center, in
> Brownstown.
> I was there 3 times this summer and discovered most of this then. Even
> tho I'd been
> there several times before.
> I do own a late issue of the some of the cemetery records for Jackson
> Co. if someone needs a lookup. Jackson Co., as I understand has a new
> 1999 issue of
> cemeteries. Is there anyway online a person could order this cemetery
> book?
> Did I understand that while there this summer, when they published the
> new cemetery book, they have now each book broken down into townships?
> I'd be
> interested in purchasing one or more of these if I knew which books had
> what in them.
> The owner of this list might be able to help with some of the
> information given here; which would also help me.
> I need the email addresses for both of these women mentioned if someone
> from the
> list would have them.
> Good Luck
> Melanie Wayman
>
>