Allen County Kansas
Obituaries and Death
Notices
Obituaries
and death notices, especially those written years ago, are not just a valuable
source of names, dates and places for a genealogist. Grouped together as they
are here they become an intimate social history of a community, written by
journalists who usually knew the deceased and their families.
Some
are tributes to pioneers, patriarchs, pastors and parents whose life stories are
the history of Allen County. Others are tender remembrances of children, women
who died in childbirth or those struck down by disease, unfortunate accidents
or natural disasters. There are stories honoring the supreme acts of sacrifice
of local young men and women who died overseas in distant wars as well as
reports of sensational crimes that live on in story for generations.
As an
Allen County researcher this is your chance to contribute to the history of
Allen County online. Please consider contributing your own family stories from
obituaries and death notices you have of Allen County residents. They don't
have to be from an obituary. You can write a tribute to your Allen County
relation and submit it as well.
If you'd like to
contribute an obituary or death notice to this page check out the GUIDELINES at the bottom of this page.
KOLLENBORN, William, Charlotte Hilly, & James W.
McCOY, Devis
Franzetta (WILLIS)
Also.....
You can check the Iola Register for
recent Allen County Obituaries
-site
provided by the Iola Register
You can check the Iola Register Obituary Index for Allen County Obituaries from 1900 to 1910, 1911 to 1919 and 20060to 2016.
You can check the Fort Scott Tribune Obituary Index for Obituaries for 2007 to 2016.
-site
provided by Southeast Kansas Genealogical Society-
Guidelines for submitting a Allen County, Kansas
obituary or death notice
Do you have an old
obituary or short death notice of a Allen County resident tucked away in a
scrapbook, trunk or file. Take it out and share it with the rest of us! Type up
your obituary and email it to us and we'll post it here. Just observe the
following guidelines...
To enter your Allen County obituaries:
1- Email them to Lonna Nevil at kscoallen@gennet.org. Put ALLEN
CO OBITUARY in your subject line.
2- On first line put name of
deceased. Use the name in the obit. If you want to rename the individual to
clarify who they are add that name in parenthesis after the obit name. Look
below for examples of this. Do this to include maiden names or full names for
individuals given initials only in the obit.
3-On the second line put the name
of the newspaper, newspaper's town, date of issue where obituary is found, page
and column, if known. PLEASE-- Allen
County residents only. A resident
is defined here as an individual who lived in Allen County for part of his/her
life.
4-When typing the obituary
capitalizing all SURNAMES. Don't put
given names or locations all in caps,
just the surnames. Now here's the hard part. Limit your obituary to less
than 350 words. This may be
hard. Some obituaries go on and on.
Figure out what to keep and what to drop.
If we get something too long we'll have to send it back to you for
editing.
5-Put "submitted by [your
name and email address]" at the end.
If you want to, include your postal address as well.
6- It's OK to edit the obits you submit.
If you want to add maiden names, correct/add dates or other information do
so. Just put any added information in
[brackets]. That lets the reader know
that this is something not in the original obituary. Just remember to keep the whole thing under 350 words.
It's as simple as
that!
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