The archive in numbers

Insights

What the archive reveals when you step back and look at all of it at once — the shape of a community across generations, held in names, dates, and burial grounds.

106,887
People documented
1,577
Cemeteries
1800–2024
Years spanned
92%
Have a recorded date
97,912 with a death date
Across the years

Documented by decade

Each bar is the number of people in the archive who died in that decade — a record that grows denser through the 20th century as families and records were preserved.

3.5k
'00
6.6k
'10
6.8k
'20
8k
'30
7.2k
'40
8.1k
'50
9.4k
'60
10.4k
'70
8.2k
'80
7.9k
'90
12.6k
'00
5.9k
'10
2k
'20
A life's length

How long they lived

Among the 86,028 people with both a birth and death date, the median lifespan was 61 years.

61
Median years lived
Mean 56 · middle half 40–75
4,050
Lives lost before age 1
4.7% of documented lifespans
86,028
Lifespans measured
Birth and death both known
6.8k
0s
2.6k
10s
5.4k
20s
6.1k
30s
8.5k
40s
11.7k
50s
14.4k
60s
14.9k
70s
10.8k
80s
4.2k
90s
626
100+
The names carried

Most-represented family names

The surnames that recur most across the archive — each one a thread connecting people, plots, and places.

Williams
2,377
Brown
2,368
Johnson
2,218
Jones
1,592
Davis
1,453
Smith
1,441
Jackson
1,427
Thomas
967
Green
818
Harris
794
Carter
740
Allen
726
Taylor
722
Robinson
717
Anderson
687
Where they rest

By state

Documented people and the cemeteries that hold them, by state. Coverage reflects where the archive has grown so far — an invitation to fill in the rest.

Texas
76,009
168 cemeteries
Georgia
19,993
959 cemeteries
Alabama
1,768
307 cemeteries
AR
88
1 cemetery
Illinois
35
13 cemeteries
Tennessee
20
8 cemeteries
Florida
6
6 cemeteries
Pennsylvania
5
2 cemeteries
Mississippi
5
5 cemeteries
North Carolina
5
5 cemeteries

Every figure here is one more person found. Search the archive, or add what you know.