Welcome
to the people finders death index records section.
We have compiled a list of death records and information many of these records go back many
years which is a great source of information. Often many of these
sources include information such as death records, death certificate
indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and
cemetery & burial records. Please feel free to use this information
free of charge as this information is publicly available online.
Some of this sources may require a payment.
South
Carolina Death Index
Search
South Carolina Death Certificates and Index 1915-1955
(requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) includes:
digitized statewide death certificates, 1915-1955; Charleston
City death records, 1821-1914; Spartanburg City death records,
1895-1897 & 1903-1914; and Union City death records, 1900 &
1913-1914
South Carolina Death Index 1915-1957 (free) requires special
Windows only viewer for 1915-1949 (provided); 1950-1957
searchable online without the viewer
South Carolina Newspapers Obituaries Archive (recent)
(individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee)
includes: Anderson Independent-Mail (1/15/1998-Current);
Bluffton Today (7/1/1999-Current); Charleston Post and Courier
(12/6/1994-Current); Columbia State (12/15/1987-Current);
Greenville News (1/2/1999-Current); Myrtle Beach Sun News
(5/1/1996-Current); Rock Hill Herald (5/1/2004-Current);
Spartanburg Herald-Journal (1/1/2004-Current); and 12 more South
Carolina newspapers
1870 Census Mortality Schedule for Upstate South Carolina
lists people who died in the year prior to the census being
taken (June 1, 1869 - May 31, 1870) includes Chester, Newberry,
Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union and York Counties