San Juan County (Utah). County Clerk

These records contain death registers for the years 1898 to 1905. Each entry has the decedent's name, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, date of death, cause of death, informant making report, and assigned number.

These records contain death registers for the years 1898-1905. Each entry has the decedent' s name, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, date of death, cause of death, the name of the informant the making report, and an 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 state passed a law requiring each county to file a uniform certificate with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.