Where do I find Rockingham County North Carolina Death records?
My great great grandmother, Eliza Bailey ( I believe this is also her maiden name) resided in Rockingham county North Carolina. From census records she was born about 1839 in North Carolina. She married John H. Bailey (Bayley, Baily). She probably died between 1909 and 1913. From my great grandfather’s marriage records I know she was still alive in 1909.
I would write to the Register of Deeds but they didn’t start keeping death records until after 1913. Where else can I find records on her? I’ve tried ancestry and I do not know where she is buried.
You could try findagrave.com, but don’t get your hopes up. The LDS site might have her. Roots Web World connect might have her.
She is probably recorded, somewhere; whether those records made it to the Internet is another question. You could try a post on the Ancestry or GenForum Rockingham County query boards.
You could write, snail mail, enclosing a SASE, to the main library in that county and ask if their special collections room had a tombstone inventory. If it does, send a second SASE and a small donation and ask them to look for her in it.