Beaver County (Utah). County Clerk

These records contain death registers for Beaver County for the years 1900 to 1905. Each entry has information regarding the decedent's name, occupation, age, term of residence in the county, marital status, sex, race, color, last place of residence, cause of death, date of death, name of party making report, and the entry's assigned number.

These records contain death registers for Beaver County for the years 1900 to 1905. Each entry has information regarding the decedent's name, occupation, age, term of residence in the county, marital status, sex, race, color, last place of residence, cause of death, date of death, name of party making report, and the entry's assigned number.

Beginning in 1898, each physician, clergyman, justice of the peace, and undertaker was required to keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of the decedent. Each person registering deaths filed quarterly with the county clerk or the local board of health in the case of incorporated cities. (Revised Statutes of Utah 1898, Title 57, p. 474-475)

In 1905, the Utah legislature passed a law that required uniform death certificates to be filed with the local registrar who in turn filed with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.