Source Information

Ancestry.com. Riley County, Kansas, U.S., Obituary Index, 1994-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: Crosson, Janice, comp.. Riley County, Kansas Obituary Index, 1994-95. Janice Crosson of the Riley County Genealogical Society compiled this database from newspaper clippings held in the archives of the Riley County Genealogical Society.

About Riley County, Kansas, U.S., Obituary Index, 1994-1995

During 1994 and 1995, newspapers in Riley County, Kansas, printed approximately 2000 obituaries. This database can serve as an index to those persons. This database indexes Riley County Newspapers: Manhattan Mercury and Wamego Times & Smoke Signals. 1994 - 1995 Obituary Index from Riley County and Area Newspapers. Riley County, Kansas, is situated approximately 100 miles west of Kansas City, Kansas, and considered to be on the western edge of Northeast Kansas. Adjacent counties are Geary, Wabaunsee, Clay, Pottawatomie, and Washington. Imogene Farley of the Riley County Genealogical Society, Manhattan, Kansas, has clipped the obituaries from area newspapers and compiled them into book form for the Riley County Genealogical Society library. This database indexes the deceased, date and place of birth, date and place of death, parents, and spouse(s) of the deceased from two of the books, 1994 and 1995. There are 1,929 records.

Further information and copies of the obituaries may be obtained for a small fee from the Riley County Genealogical Society. Access by email: [email protected] or write to Riley County Genealogical Society, 2005 Claflin Road, Manhattan, Kansas 66502.