Funeral Homes

  • McGowan Funeral Home [Searchable Database] – The McGowan funeral home operated in South Dallas from 1955 until the 1990s. The Dallas Public Library holds the collection of records from the McGowan home. DGS members have created a digital index of these records.
  • Ed C. Smith Funeral Home – The Ed C. Smith Funeral Home records deposited in the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library consist of registers starting in 1909 and extending to 1978. From 1909 until 1926 these are in hard-cover binders and from 1927 until 1978 the records are in file folders, but in both cases they are filed by year and then alphabetically within the year. There are some cash books that date from 1884; however, they generally give no genealogical or burial information.