Chatham collected obituaries from before 1930 (with the bulk being before 1910). Included are obituaries of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speculations of murder, explanations of circumstances surrounding mysterious deaths, and an obituary explaining the story of Henry Neuebaumer who shot his unfaithful sweetheart Miss Ollie Powell and then killed himself. The project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1997.