Are you looking for Cherokee 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. Cherokee County obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Cherokee County, AL newspaper articles originally published Alabama obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Cherokee County obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
Cherokee County obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, Cherokee County, Alabama obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. Cherokee County, Alabama obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.