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Ozment-Mitchell Funeral Home Records in Print

Posted on July 23, 2018 by SamJuly 23, 2018

Our society over the past year has published two volumes of funeral home records for the Ozment Funeral Home that operated here in Marion covering the years 1914-1945. Before becoming Mitchell Funeral Home, the business became Ozment-Mitchell Funeral Home and we recently published two more volumes covering the years 1945-1962 for the business in Volumes 3 and 4. The indexes have been added to our Master Funeral Home Index on our website and the books are available for research at our library. Copies can also be purchased for $35 per volume while they are available.

Membership Meeting on July 15th

Posted on July 5, 2018 by SamJuly 5, 2018

We will be holding a membership meeting here at the museum on Sunday, July 15^th, 2018, at 2:00 P.M. We will be discussing society business as well as completed, ongoing and future projects as well as showcasing our newly remodeled Native American room. If you have a show & tell item, feel free to bring it. The program will be presented by Mike McNerny who will be speaking about discoveries made in his latest book related to unusual tombstone markers.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and want to remind you that we are continually adding resources to our website at www.wcihs.org which have now exceeded 500,000 references online.

More Library Resources Now Listed On Our Site

Posted on June 30, 2018 by SamJune 30, 2018

We have added a list of all of our newspaper archives and microfilm inventory to our website. We offer several decades of the Marion Daily Republican and Johnston City Progress archives and approximately 120 microfilms. Links to these resources can be found on our Library Resources Page

Over 500,000 References Now Available Online

Posted on June 29, 2018 by SamJune 29, 2018

With the latest addition of the Creal Springs book, our website now contains over 410,000 index references from 175 of our most referenced books available online. When added to 97,000 court case references, we now offer over half a million references available to the public on our website.

Access our records by clicking on the Records tab on any page.

City of Creal Springs book index added to site

Posted on June 28, 2018 by SamJune 28, 2018

The index to the booklet put together related to the City of Creal Springs has been added to our Master Local History Index on our site. The booklet contains newspaper clippings, history articles that have been written and numerous photos of Creal Springs. Considerable information related to articles written about the Ozark Hotel and the Creal Springs College is included.