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The state did not officailly start collecting death records until 1910 so you would most likely have to contact the County Clerk at Bloomfield, Missouri.
But here is his obituary from the Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, Ill dated Friday, August 31, 1906.
CAPT, WM. GERE,
OLD BIVER MAN,
Buried Friday Afternoon in
Oakwood Cemetery.—Was in
Eighty-Second Year.
Capt, William Gere, (formerly a prominent Mississippi river steamboat captain and owner of steamboats, who di«d at Advance, Mo., August 30, was buried in Oakwood this afternoon. The body arrived tin Alton on the Big Four Flyer accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. B. J. West of Minneapolis, Minn., Emil Druech of Advance and Mrs. J. W. Burks of Bloomfield, Mo. The body was taken to Oakwood at
l o'clock wliere it was laid to rest.
The passing of Capt. Gere is an interesting event to many Alton and Upper Alton people. He was in his 82nd year when he died from infirmiltles incident to his great age. About twenty-five years ago he retired from the river and shortly after that he moved from Upper Alton to Advance, Mo., where he lived on a farm until he died. He retired from farming a number of years ago and with his aged wife, who survives him and who was unable to come to the funeral, he lived in happiness. Capt. Gere was engaged as a steamboat captain from St. Louis to St. Paul, but during after war he was making trips down the river. His mind was a storehouse of interesting incidents which he loved to relate and as a story teller, he was good. He lived
an eventful life until he retired from the river and belonged to the number of steamboat captains and pilots of the palmy days of old. He was interested
financially in packet steamers. In later years he never went near the river that was his love in his early days. Financial losses in stemboats resulting from the war caused his retirement and made him seek a country place where he could live on a farm.
The pallbearers were Ed. Rodgers, A. H. Hastings, Philip Huebner, Louis Brier, James Moore and Captain Win. Wright.
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