Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Board of Health Death Records, 1848-1913

What is in This Collection?

This collection consists of death records from the Tennessee Board of Health for the city of Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee for years 1848-1913. Some records may be light or faded and may be hard to read. Death certificates are titled "Burial Permit." Microfilm of the original records is held at the Tennessee State Library & Archives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Collection Content

• Deaths Indexes, A-Z, 1848-1901
• Death Records, nos. 1-31,063, 1902-1913
• Record of permits issued for disinterring, shipping and receiving dead bodies, 1883-1894
• Index bodies shipped from Memphis, 1894-1902
• Bodies shipped into Memphis, 1894-1903
• Bodies shipped to Memphis, 1929-1944
• Disinterments, 1934-1944
• Bodies shipped into Memphis, 1974-1977
• Register of deaths in the city of Memphis, no. 1 - 33265
• Record of deaths in Shelby County, Tenn., 1881-1882
• Index for deaths, 1889-1892
• Register of deaths, no. 33266-53765, 1884-1897
• Register of deaths in the city of Memphis, 1898-1901

Sample Images

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  1905 Register of deaths

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  1856 Death index

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  1912 Death record