Abstracts of the Obituary Book 1826-1849 Sussex County Delaware

At one time Sussex County belonged to Pennsylvania and its records go back to the late 17th century. Many Sussex County families can trace their origins to the Eastern Shore of Virginia or Maryland. The work at hand which spans the period 1826-1849 is based upon a Sussex County obituary book that was discovered in Lewes Delaware in 1954 and subsequently given to the DAR Library in Washington DC. Arranged in a tabular format the inscriptions in most cases specify the decedent's name age and date of death. Many of the entries also indicate a decedent's family member(s) occupation cause of death or other particulars.