[or-roots] Need ideas on where to locate death certificate

[Leslie Chapman]

That is going to be a tough one Trish;

: Arcanie Wright
  Author: Darlene Garrity  Date: 2 Aug 2005 1:23 AM GMT
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  In Reply to: Arcanie Wright  by:  Marie Bartholomew
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There is a book at the Humboldt County Library of all the cemeteries in
Crescent City and Del Norte County with a list of all of the graves with a
headstone. There is no one with the last name of Wright in that book.

this is the reply your person got from a query to Del Norte County Gen Soc

Oak Flat cemetery near Agness has the only Wrights buried in Curry county
that I can find online, you might ask your correspondant if these are
family;

WRIGHT, Mort; (1865-1935)

WRIGHT, Nancy; (1870-1933)

I might be able to drum something up from the Coos Bay Library files of old
Newspapers, though I don't think they have much for that far south, if you
don't get any other help in the next month or so remind me, if I get a
chance to go to the Library I will try to post an offer to do queries in
here if I know in advance that I am going.

My first question though is why would she have been buried in Crescent City,
unless she was washed out to sea and found down there??

I guess a search of Crescent City newspaper archives might be the way to go
in that case,.

Les C

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Subject: [or-roots] Need ideas on where to locate death certificate


Hi!

I was contacted by a woman in California through Random Act of Kindness for
Genealogy who has been looking for a relative who died in Harbor, OR in
1919. The relative is supposedly buried in Crescent City, CA. She lived in
Texas at the time and was visiting her daughter in Brookings when she died.
I contacted a mortuary in Crescent City last week and he very kindly checked
his records and contacted the cemetery there but could not find a listing
for the woman.  Since the mortuaries that were there in 1919 have long been
closed, there is no way to contact them.

The Oregon Death Index and the California Death Index have been checked.
There is no record of her death in either index.  Her will was probated in
Texas where she had been living. Texas does not have a death certificate on
file either.  (Although you would think that would have been part of the
probate record.)

I know that there are listers from Brookings on this list so I am hoping
that someone may have an idea of who to check with next.  I have checked the
info online for the cemeteries in Brookings/Harbor but have not found the
woman there either.  Are there any Brookings/Harbor cemeteries that have
been walked but the info is not online?

I am heading to Portland next week and will be stopping at the State
Archives.  Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated about where else
to check.  My last resort is to drive to Crescent City and walk the cemetery
myself to see if I can find her.  A last resort, for sure. At least I know
what section to be checking so that eliminates quite a few graves. :-)

The person I am searching information on is: Arcanie (or Arcania) Wright.
She was born November 1846 in Georgia and died August 11, 1919 in Harbor,
with burial in Crescent City.

Thanks for any help or suggestions!

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