Wayne County, Indiana, U.S., Quaker Funeral Home Records, 1939-1974

Located in Wayne County in east central Indiana, the Jones-Placke Funeral Homes served the Quaker-founded community of Richmond for nearly forty years. This database contains records from the Jones-Placke Funeral Home for people of many denominations.

Funeral home records encompass a variety of documents, and details often go beyond what you’ll find in some other death records. This collection includes:

• death certificates
• burial transits (permits to move a body from one location to another)
• obituary memorandums (forms filled out by family members with details to be used in obituaries)
• cemetery invoices
• various invoices and receipts relating to the funeral