Was Janesville in Cumberland Co. in 1908 or Coles Co? My Great Grandmother, Alice (Foote) Clark died in Janesville in 1908 and I thought that was Cumberland Co. but when I wrote to Cumberland Co. Clerk for a death certificate with all the info. and fees, I received back a reply that they did not have the record on file there.

Janesville sits right on the county line. It is possible for a person to have a Janesville address and live in either county. It is also possible that the record simply does not exist. Recording of deaths in those days was somewhat spotty. I would still check Coles county though.

I did check Coles Co. just to be sure and they also said they didn't have a record of it. I didn't even think about record keeping for deaths maybe not always being done at that time. Especially since she died at her mothers home and not at a hospital.
Also, I am going to check the indexes to the death records, I think the Charleston Library has those.
thanks for the reply!

I did find an entry in the cemetery inscriptions for Old Gordon cemetery (about a mile or two north of Janesville) for Alice Clark b. 12/13/1882 d. 4/26/1908 wife of L.B. Clark. His name is on the stone but no dates are supplied which could indicate that he was never buried there. Perhaps he remarried and was buried with a later wife?

Apparently Alice and L. B. married after 1900 because the 1900 census for Pleasant Grove twp. Coles County IL shows Alice living with her widowed mother Mary A. Foote and some sisters.

Yes, I have been to the Old Gordon cemetery where Alice is buried. I have other family members buried there. And I do know that her husband, Lewis Clark did remarry Minnie Wilma Hoover in 1918. I have census records for them and names and dates for their children. I just wanted to find out if there was a death certificate because I didn't know how she died. But I since have found a copy of her obituary in the Toledo Democrat on microfilm at the Charlestion library and that told me that she died of "consumption" which was Tuberculosis. thanks for your information!