Tippecanoe County Indiana Death Records Index

In an effort to help family historians find their family death dates, We have posted the Tippecanoe County Death Index created by the Works Administration Project (WPA). This index included deaths from 1882 through 1920. We included a column to add the cemetery name, if known, in this index. We know it's helpful in finding other family members. These real Death Records books have not been microfilm to date in our County.

During the period 1936-1940 the Indiana Works Progress Administration indexed a large part of the birth, marriage and death records of 68 of Indiana's 92 counties. Marriage records were indexed from 1850 through 1920. Birth and death records were indexed from 1882 through 1920. While not all Counties conformed, Tippecanoe County did start vital records in 1882. Not all deaths were recorded, especially those families that lived out in the rural areas. Some names may be missing in our index.

Undoubtedly there are typing errors when transcribing a project with this many dates. We find them in many early records and indexing. We listed it as it was printed. We did highlighted some cells in red to show new information we found while linking the names to the Findagrave page found.. It could be the same person. We did not want to correct the whole WPA list, just showing possible matches.

Ab to An	Ap to Ay	Ba to Bn	Bo to Bros	Brow_By	Ca to Cd
Ce to Com	Con to Cy	Da to Dic	Die to Dy	E	F
G	H	I	J	K	Ler to Les
Ma to McDole	McDonald to Metzinger	Meyer to Miv	Moag to My	N	O
P	Q	Ra to Rogers	Roh to Ry	Sa to Shawer	Shea to Smith
Smithb to Sy	T	U	V	Wa to Wiese	Wig to Wy
Unknowns	Y	Z	Thank you TIPCOA MEMBERS ;-)

Tippecanoe County Health Department link. New 2022

Death Notices found in the Lafayette Free Press 1833-1839 ** rare

Tippecanoe County Genweb, early death notices 1840s

Deaths From Cholera, 1849 & 1850 Mortality Schedule & More 1850-1880 on Ancestry

Tippecanoe Co Indiana Death Notices and Obituaries project 1850- 1869

1901 Obituary Index - Lafayette Weekly Courier

Lafayette Journal and Courier Newspaper Index, 1902-1952

Lafayette Leader Obituary Index Project 1970 to 1990 A few pages were missing

Lafayette Leader online obituaries (current)

There are several newspapers in the Tippecanoe County Public library that you can check for obituaries. You may find a totally different obituary in daily newspapers if the family was local. You should check the weekly newspapers too. Sometime the obituaries were sent in later. These in the back reference areas at the main public library.

Newspaper Archives.com Newspapers.com Genealogy Banks