DEATH CERTIFICIATES

Death certificates can take us back many years and provide us a small gold mine of information. 

The information found on Amelia's death certificate takes us back into her family history in the late 1700th century. Sometime you find a family member who lives to be 90 plus. What a gift of information we have found. Whenever possible look for the brother or sister of your direct ancestor who lived to exceed 90 years old.

Name                 Amelia Thornburgh Gooch 

Birth date           4 Aug 1824, Jefferson County, Tennessee

Death date         6 Nov 1918, Granger County, Tennessee

Cemetery           Rutledge Cemetery

Father's Name    Ai Thornburgh of Tennessee

Mother's Name   Mary Lansdown of Tennessee

Look at all the information.  It also establishes the fact the Thornburgh Family was in Jefferson County, Tennessee in time for the 1830 census which may provide additional clues in trying to put the Thornburgh Family together.

Keep digging it is out there. Buy-the-way, this death certificate was found on FamilySearch.org. I did a surname only search on all Tennessee death certificares on line and to my surprise Amelia's showed up among all the other Thornburghs. Although Amelia married name is Gooch, Family Search has multible indexes set up to search records many different ways. The search picked up on Amelia's maiden name of Thornburgh. Wow, what a search engine we have at our finger tips.

Now with this information we can focus our search in and around Rutledge, Tennessee for additional family members who might be buried in local cemeteries.