It seems the Secretary of State out in Show-Me Land had enough time on his or her hands to digitize a bunch of the old death certificates on file in his or her office.That's good news to genealogists, no?!
The records span from 1910 to 1957, and are searchable at the following link:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/
I have already found some folks from my own family tree:
* Mary Fletcher "Fet" Cocke (1829-1913) of Keytesville, elder sister of my ancestor Martha Virginia Brown (#33).
* William McKinzy Cocke (1826-1917) of Keytesville, Fet's husband and also a distant cousin.
* Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hanenkamp Delafield (1849-1932) of St. Louis, a distant cousin.
* Wallace Delafield (1840-1915) of St. Louis, Lizzie's husband.
* Lewis D. Dozier (1846-1914) of St. Louis, a distant cousin by marriage.
* Sallie Lewis Johnson (1860-1926) of St. Louis, a distant cousin.
* Warren Johnson (1861-1936) of Webster Groves, Sallie's husband.
* Andrew J. Knapp (1851-1921) of St. Louis, husband of Julia below.
* Julia Lewis Knapp (1855-1918) of St. Louis, a distant cousin.
* Lewis Knapp (1877-1947) of St. Louis, Julia's son.
* John D. Perry Lewis (1873-1939) of St. Louis, a distant cousin.
* Sallie Lewis (1870-1938) of St. Louis, John's wife.
* Turner Talton Lewis (1857-1932) of St. Louis, a distant cousin.
* Kate Virginia Manning (? - 1917) of Kansas City, sister of my namesake William Swinney Morgan (#16).
* Williem E. Manning (1858-1939) of Kansas City, Kate's husband.
* William E. Royster, Sr., (1863-1936) of Kansas City, a distant cousin by marriage.
* William E. Royster, Jr. (1913-1913) of Independence, who died of bronchitis when only 2 weeks of age.
* Margaret Morris Scarritt (1853-1933) of Kansas City, a distant cousin.
* Stuart G. Stickney (1877-1932) of St. Louis, a distant cousin by marriage (a marriage, by the way, which ended in divorce according to the death certificate!)
