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Welcome to the obituary database.
This is a modest effort. This is, rather obviously, not a comprehensive list of data. This is primarily the work of two people who enter obituary data in between work and other activities in their busy lives. If you write to us, please be gentle. We do this for free, as a labor of love. Also, it is a new site, and there is not much to it yet.
For the time being, we're primarily concentrating on obituaries from Arkansas, Louisiana and Missisippi. We may add more states later, but for now, we're working on these three states.
Why would we go around putting obituaries on a website? Because in my own personal case, if someone, anyone, would have bothered recording the obituaries of some of my relatives, I might at least know where they're buried. Also, obituaries tend to get taken off of newspaper websites, and become lost over time. Even if we can preserve a few of them, we're happy.
We know very, very few of the people whose obituaries we record here. We take this from public information. If we have placed your relative here and you want the data removed, write us. However, we can't imagine why in the world you'd want us to do that. These kinds of records are helpful to everyone. If you'd like to add some extra information to an obit (for instance, your Uncle Bob was a Freemason, collected stamps, owned a beloved Doberman Pinscher, enjoyed woodworking and fought during World War II), we'd be glad to add that for you. Personalized information is good (provding that there's not too much of it; we try to keep these obits reasonably short). We also reserve the right to edit anything and everything. Anyway, just write. Give us some time to answer, though.
Want to add someone to the database? No problem. Just write. But it would help immensely helpful if you sent us information that we could just cut-and-paste from an e-mail or an online database. Please don't make us type a bunch of information by hand unless absolutely necessary.
You might notice that certain types of data are missing in these obits. That's because we're working with limited space here. So no, we don't usually include the pallbearers, honorary pallbearers and so forth. Things we DO try to mention, if possible, is where the person was from, the birth and death dates (if known), the names of some relatives, and the funeral home handling the services. We don't always know the name of each individual funeral home, but that's a very important piece of information. If the funeral home is still in business, they often keep records and can help you find further information. We don't always get every piece of data we'd like to, and some of the obituaries are rather scanty. But remember, a tiny bit of information is better than none at all.
We have done cemetery transcriptions and entered well over a thousand online obituaries on other sites. Now we're doing another site, because of all the e-mails we've gotten from people saying that our information has been helpful to them.
Honoring our dead is important. True, we don't know most of the people whose names appear here. We never met them, don't know their families, never interacted with them in any way. But they were once here among us. They were real, living people with meaningful lives. Perhaps they died in infancy; perhaps they lived to be over 100 years old. They were important to someone, and deserve to be memorialized. We salute them.
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FOUR BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE!
That's right. This website has now spawned a series of books. The first three obituary books are finished, with more forthcoming. They contain some of the obits from this site, but also many that never appeared here. There are now two collections of obituaries from Northwest Arkansas (Washington, Madison, Carroll and Benton Counties), and a collection of obituaries from the Little Rock/Benton area (Pulaski and Saline Counties). These obits range from the 1800s to 2008. Each book is 8 1/2 x 11", perfect-bound, with a color cover. Other in-progress volumes include a book for the Pine Bluff area, one for the Fort Smith/Van Buren area (Sebastian and Crawford Counties), and a book including obits for Pope, Conway, and Faulkner Counties. Also, additional volumes of Northwest Arkansas and Little Rock area obituaries are in the works. More areas will likely be added before long. Right now, I'm working primarily on Arkansas, but may add other states later.
Oh, you say you want your book in e-book format? No problem! Electronic books (or e-books) are downloadable books that you store in the hard drive of your computer. NOTE: They are not real physical books. The exact same information is there, but you're downloading a file from the Internet. This is NOT a paper-and-ink book. Advantage: E-books are cheaper than print books. Disadvantage: You don't get an actual physical book to put on your bookshelf or hold in your hand; you just get a PDF computer file. Anyway, all of my books are available as e-book downloads, for those who prefer that format.