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1870 Federal Census
1870 Mortality Schedule
Montgomery County, Missouri

Persons who died during the year ending 1st June 1870

Every column in the schedule has been transcribed. Every effort has been made to transcribe this schedule as written. There may be some errors,but these will mostly be errors in interpretation of writing as opposed to errors of omission. Transcribed by Nancy Hale Lee, 1062 Co Rd 1041, Martinsburg, MO 65264, May 1999.


Key to Columns
Fam#: Number of family given in the 2nd column of Schedule 1 (column 1)
Name: Name of every person who died during the year ending 1st June 1870, whose usual place of abode at the time of his death was in his family (column 2)
Age: Age of person in years unless otherwise indicated (column 3) D(ays) M(onths) W(eeks)
S: Sex, m(ale) f(emale) n(ot) l(isted)
Color: w(hite) b(lack) m(ulatto)
M/W: m(arried) w(idowed)
POB: Place of birth; Pru = Prussia; England = Eng; otherwise standard postal abbreviations were used for the states
F: Father of foreign birth
M: Mother of foreign birth
MTH: Month of death
Trade: Profession, occupation, or trade (column 11)
Cause: Cause of death; if blank, nothing was entered

Danville Township, enumerated by Benjamin Palmer, Ass't Marshal
Fam# Name Age S Color M/W POB F M MTH Trade Cause
34 Huttes, Clondsey M 4 m w   MO     Feb   worms
36 Kouser, Caroline 1 f w   MO 1 1 Dec   Typhoid fever
40
 
Leach, Vina
 
80
 
f
 
b
 
  VA
 
    Feb
 
  Congestion Stomach Bladder
45 Cowen, Mary 63 f w m KY     May   Congestion Chills
64 Wright, James T 58 m w m KY     June   Consumption
106 Winn, Charlotte 56 f w m PA 1   Sept   Disease of the heart
141 Chaney, William 8 m w   MO     March   Spinal Disease
214 McGinnis, William 44 m w m KY     Jan Farmer Consumption
248 Powell, Nancy 75 f w w VA     March   Typhoid Pneumonia
252 Brysen, Nannie J 20 f w   MO     April   Typhoid Fever
257 Owen, Martha J 34 f w m MO     Jan   Measles

Loutre Township, enumerated by Benjamin Palmer, Ass't Marshal
Fam# Name Age S Color M/W POB F M MTH Trade Cause
34 Moore, Elizabeth 60 f w m VA     Oct   Typhoid Fever
67 Hunter, Lari 62 f w w NC     Jany   Pneumonia
70 Moseley, Isham P 18 m w m MO     March Farmer Disease of Spine
131 Kallmeyer, John H 53 m w m Pru 1   Sept Farmer Typhoid Fever
181
 
Ritter, James
 
19
 
m
 
w
 
  MO
 
1
 
  May
 
Farm Laborer Accidentally shot himself (firearms)
226
 
Grooms, Wm
 
45
 
m
 
w
 
m
 
MO
 
    July
 
Farmer
 
Dropsy of Heart & Consumption
272 Bear, Henry 4 m w   MO 1 1 May   Kick of Horse
306
 
Knox, James
 
74
 
m
 
w
 
m
 
KY
 
    March
 
Farmer
 
Pneumonia & (Pluropsy?)

Prairie Township, enumerated by Benjamin Palmer, Ass't Marshal
Fam# Name Age S Color M/W POB F M MTH Trade Cause
21 Clary, Daniel 79 m w w MD     April Farmer Chronic Rheum
23 Looker, William 5 m w w MO     Feb   Hooping Coff
35 Cochran, Sarahann 36 f w m OH         Disease of the Heart
125 Cushman, Thomas 89 m w w VA     Feb Farmer Pneumonia
156 Kirtley, Maryanne 34 f w m KY     July   Cancer Stomach
169 Pierson, Martha 78 f w m Eng     Feb   Asthma
248 Palmer, George 5 m w   MO     July   worms
251 Young, Lenar 11m m w   MO     March   Disease of the Spine
286 McNamara, Georgia 3m f w   MO     Nov   Choll--- Infantism

Upper Loutre Township, enumerated by Benjamin Palmer, Ass't Marshal
Fam# Name Age S Color M/W POB F M MTH Trade Cause
8 White, Dorcas 2 f w   MO     Dec   Measles
76 Cagney, John 6m m w   IL     Oct   Spiral infection
85 Wood, Martha 42 f w m KY     June   Cancer
88
 
Colation, MaryAnn
 
6
 
f
 
w
 
  MO
 
    Feb
 
  Scarlet Fever
 
88
 
Colation, Catherine
 
3
 
f
 
w
 
  MO
 
    Feb
 
  Scarlet Fever
 
88 Colation, Patrick 1 m w   MO     Feb   Scarlet Fever
81 Oliver, John 79 m w w KY     Sept Farmer Disease of the heart
91 Eads, Martin 76 m w m VA     Jan Clergyman Inflamation Bladder
95 Orouk, Mary H 33 f w   MO     Feb   Scarlet Fever
106 Bays, William S 23 m w   MO     Feb Farmer Consumption
110
 
Johnson, William S.
 
1
 
m
 
w
 
  MO
 
    Sept
 
  Scarlet fever
 
138 Harris, William 84 m w w VA     Jan Farmer Typhoid fever
184 Mahoney, Fanny 39 f w w MO     Oct   Consumption
189 McGee, Robert 47 m w m KY     Aug Farmer Softening Brain
221 Fry, Joseph 51 m w m Eng     Mar Farmer Pneumonia
279 Dulaney, Anney 9m f w   MO     June   Scroffula
326
 
Brelsford, Trefonius
 
13
 
m
 
w
 
  OH
 
    Sept
 
  Typhoid fever
 
336 Skinner, Elizabeth 44 f w   SC     Feb   Pneumonia
350
 
McFarlane (no given name) 1
 
f
 
w
 
  MO
 
    Nov
 
  Broncheta
 
343 Robinson, Francis 63 f w w VA     March   Cancer
390 Brocius, George 12 m w   MO     March   Bronchittis

I hereby certify that the whole number of pages in the foregoing Return made by me on Schedule Two is Five and that this Return has been well and truly made according to the tenor of my oath of office. Signed, Benjamin Palmer, Assistant Marshal: Dated May 15, 1871


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