Are you looking for Marshall County obituaries and death records? While this is very useful in researching a family name, you are actually limited in what you can find when you search only for basic information. Marshall County obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Marshall County, IL newspaper articles originally published Illinois obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Marshall County obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
Marshall County obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, Marshall County, Illinois obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. Marshall County, Illinois obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.