Source Information

Illinois Prairie District Library, comp.. Woodford County, Illinois, Prairie District Library, Obituaries, 1887-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Original data: The Woodford Sentinel Newspaper and The Metamora Herald Newspaper. Woodford County, IL, USA: 1887-2000. Newspaper Obituaries for the Woodford County area.Illinois Prairie District Library, Woodford County, Illinois, USA.

About Woodford County, Illinois, Prairie District Library, Obituaries, 1887-2000

Woodford County, Illinois, Illinois Prairie District Public Library, Obituaries 1887-Present.
Located in the central region of Illinois, the Illinois Prairie District Public Library, with its six branch locations, serves 19,179 residents. The headquarters for the Illinois Prairie District Public Library is in the Metamora Branch. The IPDPL Newspaper Obituary Index has been compiled from microfilmed copies of The Woodford Sentinel Newspaper (January 1887 to 06 December 1889) and The Metamora Herald Newspaper (20 December 1889-Present). The newspapers cover the nearby towns of Benson, Cazenovia, Germantown Hills, Low Point, Roanoke, Spring Bay, and Washburn. The IPDPL Newspaper Obituary Index includes:

  • Surname
  • First name
  • Middle name
  • Nickname
  • Title
  • Gender
  • Birth date
  • Death date
  • Age
  • Newspaper
  • Newspaper date
  • Section
  • Page number
  • Column number

A card file version of the IPDP Newspaper Obituary Index is maintained at at the Metamora Branch of the Illinois Prairie District Public Library. This version includes cross references to women's maiden names and previous married names. The project staff (Grant Fredericksen, Roberta Grooms, and Carol Wood) and many dedicated volunteers have made this index available for your use. We have tried to include all of the obituaries, whether full length or a line, but errors and omissions may have occurred and for this we apologize. Photocopies of obituaries as they appear on the microfilm may be ordered from the Illinois Prairie District Public Library by mail, fax, or e-mail.

Mail request to:

Illinois Prairie District Public Library
P.O. Box 770, Metamora IL 61548
Phone: (309) 367-4594
Fax: (309) 367-2687
E -mail: [email protected].

Fees: Photocopies of Obituaries - $3.00 each.

Please include the following information in your request: surname, first name, middle name, date of death, newspaper, newspaper date, page number, column number: quantity requested, type of paper wanted.