| | Abstract: | The Pease Funeral Home was founded in the early 1870s by James A. Pease and his brother, Calvin Pease, in Dover (now Westlake), Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Following the death of James Pease, his son Clifford Pease took over the operation of the funeral home. A civic and business leader in Dover, he remained head of the business until his death in 1944. His wife, Alice Minerva Osborn Pease, and daughter, Marion E. Pease took over the firm upon his death. In 1955, the business was sold to Glen A. and Melvin Jenkins, father and son, and renamed the Jenkins Funeral Home. The collection consists of calendars and journals; daybooks; business account ledgers and inventories; funeral account ledgers, register and record books; financial records, including tax returns, receipts, and bank statements; real estate records, including census of business, acquisition and sale of property; and death records, including burial permits, correspondence, state death certificates, provisional death certificates, funeral notes of records, Ohio obituaries, and military death records. The funeral account and records books contain much information useful to genealogists, including birthplace, state of residence, location and cause of death, and names and birthplaces of parents of the deceased. The records also include a significant number of individuals of Scandinavian, Italian, and German heritage; many of them contain personal notes handwritten by the Pease family pertaining to the deceased and obituaries listing maiden names and next of kin. click here to view the searchable index to the burial records contained in this collection | |
