Please forward to any of your groups that may be able to use this
information:
To obtain an obituary, you can contact either the Central Public Library
of Indianapolis or the Indiana State Library. The Central Public
Library carries only Indianapolis newspapers and the Indiana State
Library carries newspapers from major Indiana cities, including
Indianapolis.
Central Public Library
40 East St. Clair St
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 269-1700
To request in person: Microfilm Division, fee: 10 cents per copy.
To request in writing or by phone: Social Sciences Division, (317)
269-1733, fee: $1.00 per copy.
Information needed: Name of deceased and date of death.
Indiana State Library
Newspaper Division
140 N Senate Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 232-3664
To request in person or in writing: Newspaper Division, fee: 25 cents
per copy, allow 4-6 weeks.
NO REQUESTS TAKEN BY PHONE.
The Indiana State Library offers an inter-library loan of newspaper
microfilm to libraries in all 50 states. Call or write them for more
information.
To locate burial locations for veterans (deaths prior to 1949): contact
the Indiana State Archives in Room 117 for the Indiana State Library.
They take requests in person or in writing at no charge. They have
locations for beterans buried in 40 Indiana counties. Call (317)
232-3660 for more information.
This information is taken from the back of the Crown Hill Cemetery
"Genealogy Requests for Information". Crown Hill has a genealogy
service. However, the charge is $5.00 per name and they tell you up
front "As a general rule, we cannot provide the names of parents,
children or other relatives because family relationships have not been
recorded in our records. If a person is buried on a family lot, we can
tell you who is buried on the lot with them." Crown Hill is one of the
oldest cemeteries in Marion Co; it is huge, beautiful and still active.
Phyllis Miller Fleming
Shelbyville, IN
plfleming(a)shelbynet.net