Death Certificates

In Georgia, statewide issuing of death certificates began in 1919. While some death records exist for earlier decades (principally materials collected by the State Board of Health from 1914 to 1919), most Athens-Clarke County death records date from the post-1919 era. Death records from 1919 to 1930 are indexed and available online at the Georgia Archives in Morrow, Georgia. Building from this dataset, The Athens Death Project has transcribed and datafied 3,405 death certificates for Athens Clarke County from the years 1919 to 1927.

First Name Last Name Occupation Race Sex Age at Death Cause of Death Address Funeral Home Cemetery
Housework Clarke County, GA
Infection 197 Hiawassee Ave B. Dunaway and Sons
Premature 335 Arch St Mack and Payne Spaulding Cemetery
Premature birth [Unknown Address] Bob Cole [individual] Athens, Georgia
Ellington African American Stillborn Lyndon Ave & Dubose Ave No undertaker [family] At home

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