This compilation is a cooperative effort of Maureen K. Reed individually and Barbara Baker of the Johnson County Central Resource Library. The intent is to help Johnson County researchers pinpoint the date and location of the death of an ancestor, thus the inclusion of non-traditional sources of information. Compilations of this type usually only include formal obituaries, but we have endeavored to glean every mention of a death from the newspapers. The index lists the type of entries each mention is.
Some people have more than one entry.
I included them all, not wanting to leave out the faintest clue. The assignment of these categories was extremely subjective on my part with categories overlapping at times. They are there mostly just to give you an idea of what to expect. Sometimes the circumstances of a death were considered newsworthy and were written up in the newspaper as an article. This is a broad category that covers any newspaper listing that does not fit in the other categories.