By Amanda Wilson
& Jared Senseman
Obituaries offered in J.D.
Williams Library for Journalistic Research
The Ole Miss library
provides a way to view obituaries dating back to 1872. It is located on the
third floor and also has a link online to view scanned obituaries in PDF
format. Obituaries can be great sources historic research, as much of the time
they are hard to find.
The Ole Miss Libraries
Digital Collections, specifically the Aldrich Collection, is the home to
hundreds of obituaries dating back to over 100 years ago. One of the
oldest obituaries contained by the Libraries Digital Collections, belongs to
Hattie H. Jones who died in 1872.
“Many journalists often
come to the Library to ask for obituaries from various people,” head of
archives and special collections, Jennifer Ford says.
The collection also holds
the obituary of important alumni from the university.
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