Weber 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, cause of death, the name of the informant making report, and an assigned number.

This series contains two registers listing deaths in the county during the years 1898-1905. The registers were created in compliance with state law requiring that, 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)

Each entry in the registers includes the decedent' s name, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, cause of death, the name of the informant making report, and assigned number. Individual certificates with the same information follow the register. At some point in the later twentieth century a handwritten name index was added to each register.

In 1905, the state passed a law requiring each county to file a uniform certificate with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.