Childress County, Texas Obituaries — A Records Index

This index gathers transcribed obituaries for Childress County, Texas, one of the Texas Panhandle counties covered in this archive alongside Clay and Somervell counties. Because the county was only organized in 1887, its obituary coverage naturally begins around that period rather than earlier.

The county's rapid early growth, driven by the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad reaching the area the same year it was organized, means many obituaries here belong to families who arrived from elsewhere in Texas rather than multi-generation Childress County natives. Cross-referencing a name found here against the county's death certificate and Confederate veterans records can help build a fuller picture of a specific family.

Browse the Childress County Collection

• Death certificates — indexed A through R across 7 pages.
• 20th-century veterans memorial — World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and peacetime service, across 7 pages.
• Confederate veterans who later settled in the county, and Camp Joseph E. Johnston, the veterans organization they formed in 1892.
• Cemeteries: Tell Baptist, Tell Methodist, and Olympus (Lonnie) Cemetery.
• First term of district court — an early court record.
• Childress County history
• Early Childress street names
• Surname index
• Community Center school history
• Historic photos — the 1912 football team and 1928 basketball team.
• Reader queries and county contacts

See the complete Childress County records index for every page in the collection.