Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Deceased Veterans Information collection
Collection Overview
Abstract
This collection consists of listings, prepared monthly, of military veterans who died in Ohio.
Dates
- Creation: May 1941-1968, 1970-1981
Extent
11.58 Cubic Feet (20 legal size archive boxes, 4 letter size archive boxes, and 1 half-legal size archive box)
Scope and Contents
Monthly lists of deceased veterans from the State of Ohio. Information on the listings includes county of residence, name, branch of service, date of birth, date of burial, cemetery and city of burial, and grave location (section, lot, and grave number). Some listings also provide date of entry into service, date of discharge, type of discharge, and date of death.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Arrangement
The deceased are listed within each month alphabetically by county of death. No listings are available for June 1943 or the year 1969.
Folders are numbered consecutively throughout the collection. For the most part the folders run January-December for each year. In a few instances, however, the months are out of sequence.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Provenance of these records unknown. Presumably received by Center for Archival Collections when it served as one of the Ohio Network of American History Research Centers (circa 1990s).
- Title
- Guide to the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Deceased Veterans Information collection
- Author
- Cindy Radford
- Date
- January 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English