Street address of current or former residence. Date of death of spouse if preceded person in death. Parent's names including mother's maiden name. 
Names of surviving families members (spouse, siblings, children, parents) and where they currently reside. Some of the earliest obituaries/death notices included minimal information to aid a genealogist. Since the 1920s, an obituary most likely contains a wealth of information including: Since then, the obituaries are normally found after the comics and prior to the classified ads. The first listings in the classified ads are the death notices. If the place of interment is not mentioned in the obituary, it may be mentioned in the death notice. Starting in 1797, the Adler, a German weekly newspaper, is published in the Reading, Pennsylvania area. Other newspapers in the 19th century included the Reading Daily Gazette and the Reading Daily Times. The first Reading Daily Eagle was published on January 28, 1868. In the early part of the 20th century, some obituaries would be grouped together somewhere in the newspaper under a "Deaths" heading. Other death announcements may be located throughout the paper. Starting August 27, 1933, the Reading Eagle first published a daily comic section, located after the sports section. 
The deaths of community members often were noted in even the earliest editions of the newspaper.
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