Where do I find Rockingham County North Carolina Death records?

Question

My great great grandmother, Eliza Bailey ( I believe this is also her maiden name) resided in Rockingham county North Carolina. From census records she was born about 1839 in North Carolina. She married John H. Bailey (Bayley, Baily). She probably died between 1909 and 1913. From my great grandfather's marriage records I know she was still alive in 1909.

I would write to the Register of Deeds but they didn't start keeping death records until after 1913. Where else can I find records on her? I've tried ancestry and I do not know where she is buried.

Answer 1

go to the social security death index  www.ssi.org  I use that sometimes.it's mostly for recent deaths,so that probably wouldn't help you.But the best way,and the most expensive,is to subscribe to ancestry.com,where,depending on which package you choose,you can research all the way back to your European ancestors.I would love to belong to it but I can't afford it!!

Good luck!!

Answer 2

You could try findagrave.com, but don't get your hopes up. The LDS site might have her. Roots Web World connect might have her.

She is probably recorded, somewhere; whether those records made it to the Internet is another question. You could try a post on the Ancestry or GenForum Rockingham County query boards.

You could write, snail mail, enclosing a SASE, to the main library in that county and ask if their special collections room had a tombstone inventory. If it does, send a second SASE and a small donation and ask them to look for her in it.

Answer 3

Since I know that NC did not require and record any birth / marriage / death records before 1913, you will not find any official state records.  The most you can hope for is info in a family Bible, possibly, but not likely an obituary (check the local library of the area she lived to view copies of old newspapers), or check with the churches in the area she lived ; or post your info in the Bailey message boards on www.genealogy.com and hope someone will see it and have info for you.

I also have a Bailey in that area I need to find, and I am at the point now that I am going to have to make a trip to a local library there to find more info as I have exhausted anything I can do by computer.