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Indiana Deaths, 1820-1920

Prior to January 1900 when statewide registration of deaths began in Indiana, deaths were recorded at the local level by each county's health office. The WPA began to index vital records, county-by-county, for the entire state.
With the information gathered from this index you may be able to obtain a copy of the original death record from the county health department or Division of Vital Records (address listed below). It is important to use indexes to locate original records because original records often contain more information than do their indexes.
State Board of Health, Division of Vital Records
1330 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46207

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Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.
Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.

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Name: Edgar B. Brooks
Date: Jul 11, 1913
Age: 83 yr
Gender: Male
Race: W
Source location: County Health Office, Laporte
Source notes: The source of this record is the book H-28 on page 82 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration.

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Name: Agusta V. Brooks
Date: Jan 24, 1892
Location: Center Township
Age: 53 yr
Gender: Female
Race: W
Source location: County Health Office, Laporte
Source notes: The source of this record is the book H-20 on page 54 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration.

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Name: Elizabeth Brooks
Date: Mar 11, 1920
Location: New Durham Township
Age: 72 yr
Gender: Female
Race: W
Source location: County Health Office, Laporte
Source notes: The source of this record is the book H-29 on page 101 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration.

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