[Phono-L] Artist Death Certificates

john robles john9ten at pacbell.net
Mon Apr 7 22:35:59 PDT 2008


Somewhere around my room I have Vaughn DeLeath's death certificate. Maybe I can scan it for you. But I have to find it first!
  John Robles

Ryan Barna <ryansrecords1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Howdy,

I just got done posting about 95% of my collection of phonograph artist death certificates. If you ever wondered when some of your favorites died, or what they died of, or what some of their real names were, or their parents, or where they're buried, or if they were cremated, these death certificates are a great source of information! I have not had a chance to document some of the mistakes found on the certificates themselves, or type out some of the hard-to-read handwriting (I hope to do both within the next week or so), but this is such a fine collection that I couldn't wait to show you. I think you'll find them fascinating in a sad manner.

The URL is: http://www.phonostalgia.com/death and here's the first 21 certificates I've posted so far:

Frank P. Banta
Arthur Collins
Vernon Dalhart
Will F. Denny
Edward M. Favor
Arthur Fields
George Gaskin
Billy Golden
Byron G. Harlan
William F. Hooley
George W. Johnson
Ada Jones
Jack Kaufman
Harry Macdonough
Billy Murray
Steve Porter
Dan W. Quinn
Bob Roberts
Joseph C. Smith
Frank C. Stanley
Walter Van Brunt

And there's more certificates to come in the next few months. Be sure to check out some of the other things I posted. A few days ago, I added a new section covering the story behind the obscure bandleader, Joseph C. Smith, and just today I posted some photographs of Arthur Collins' grave.

Stay tuned,

-Ryan
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