West Virginia Funeral Home Records online may include funeral home or mortuary records, funeral programs, burial insurance records and more. These records contain information related to death and burial such as:

 

  • name of the deceased

  • death certificate

  • death date and place

  • burial date and place

  • birth date and place

  • copy of the obituary

  • name of informant (often a relative)

  • residence of deceased

  • list of surviving relatives

  • residences of relatives

  • funeral program including speakers and pall bearers

  • biographical information for the deceased

  • burial insurance

 

Also see:

West Virginia Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

West Virginia Substitute Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

 

 

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West Virginia Funeral Home Records online at the federal level

US – Mortuary Records – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index, at FS

US – Funeral Homes – U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current, at Anc$

 

 

 

West Virginia Funeral Home Records online at the county level

Kanawha County – Funeral Homes – Harden & Harden Funeral Home Records 1922-1995, at WVSA

Marshall County – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1891-1940, at FS

Raleigh County – Funeral Homes – Melton Mortuary Funeral Directors, at FS

Summers County – Funeral Homes – Death Records of Funeral Directors, Lowe Furniture Co., Summers County, 1917-1929, at FS

 

 

 

West Virginia Funeral Home Records online at the city level

Dunbar – Funeral Homes – Harden & Harden Funeral Home Records 1992-1995, at WVSA

Hinton – Funeral Homes – Death Records of Funeral Directors, Lowe Furniture Co., Summers County, 1917-1929, at FS

Moundsville – Church Records – Marshall County, West Virginia, Wills, Inventories, Family and Church Records (1795-1900) : Copied from Moundsville, Court House Records, Grisell’s Funeral Service (Moundsville, West Virginia), at FS

St. Albans – Funeral Homes – Records of the Bartlett Funeral Home, St. Albans, West Virginia, at FS

 

 

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