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McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society

 

Index to Death Notices Appearing in The Sentinel (Woodstock, IL), 1856-1894

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Surname Age Date of Death Date of Issue
YORK, Mrs. Luther - - 20 Mar 1879
YOUNG, George W. 71 16 Feb 1890 20 Feb 1890
YOUNG, Henry - - 28 Aug 1890
YOUNG, Jennie 23 14 Oct 1888 18 Oct 1888
YOUNG, Jessie (Yule) -- 16 Oct 1884 06 Nov 1884
YOUNG, Oliver 80 07 Mar 1893 09 Mar/16 Mar 1893
YOUNG, Victor H. 5 11 Aug 1862 13 Aug 1862
ZALE, John - - 18 May 1893
ZANDER, Mrs. Charles 22 25 Oct 1892 03 Nov 1892
ZIERCK, Joachim 58 13 Jan 1892 21 Jan 1892
ZIMMER, Mary - - 24 Jul 1890
ZIMMERMAN, — [female inmate at Elgin Asylum] - - 08 Aug 1878
ZIMMERMAN, — [son of Chas.] -- -- 29 Sep 1881
ZIMMERMAN, Chas. -- -- 29 Sep 1881
ZIMPLEMAN, — [dau. of J.P.] -- -- 21 Feb 1889
ZINK, Zachariah -- -- 27 Jan 1887
ZORN, John 64 - 22 Dec/29 Dec 1892
ZSCHACH, Henry -- -- 18 Aug 1887
ZUIC, John 65 -- 08 Dec 1887
Research Note: The Woodstock Sentinel is the oldest extant newspaper in McHenry County. The first issue was published on July 17, 1856, a single sheet containing no local news and only four columns of advertisements. As its popularity grew, the editors added local news, including death notices and marriage announcements. Not a single birth notice appears in the issues from 1856 through 1869. Researchers should be aware that obituaries, as we know them today, were very rare in the early issues of this newspaper. Instead, death notices were published—usually a line or two providing the name, age, death date, and sometimes the names of parents or a spouse. These early issues are extremely difficult to read; variant spellings and misspellings of names were frequent.
McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society
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