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JENNINGS COUNTY MORTALITY SCHEDULES
1870
Transcription of original documents at Jennings County Library
Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Bigger Township reported by Thomas S James Ass't Marshal

Listing is as follows - family number from census,  name of deceased,  age,  sex,  race,  married/M widowed/W,  state born,  parentage - father of foreign birth, mother of foreign birth,  month died,  occupation,  cause of death.
6 Guirl, Charles 32 M W M Ohio _____ _____ March Carpenter Consumption
55 Stribling, George 81 M W W Virginia _____ _____ March Farmer Neumonia
69 Wright, Electa 14 F W _____ Indiana _____ _____ July _____ Lung Fever
73 Hulse, ??ith 18 F W M Indiana _____ _____ February Keeping House Typhoid Fever
123 McNut, Elizabeth 7 mos. F W _____ Indiana _____ _____ Sept _____ Cholera Infantum
166 Carson, Daniel 62 M W _____ Ireland Yes Yes Oct Farmer Elephantiasis
167 Carson, Infant _____ F W _____ Indiana _____ _____ March _____ Stillborn

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Campbell Township reported by Daniel Bacon Ass't Marshal
Very Hard to Read
7 Miles, Fanny E 13 F W _____ Indiana _____ _____ Jan At Home Typhoid Fever
21 Huckleberry, Silas 56 M W M Indiana _____ _____ Apr Farming Brights disease
31 Stanley, Samuel 75 M W M Pennsylvania _____ _____ May Farming Paralysis
70 Sanders, Henry 17 M B _____ Ken _____ _____ Feb Laborer Consumption
125 Ments, Ida ? F B _____ Ken _____ _____ Feb _____ Convulsions
127 Kidd, George 6 M W _____ Indiana Yes Yes Apr _____ ?
142 Ketchum, Johnathon 70 M W M New York _____ _____ Jan Keeping Hotel Congestion of the Lungs
181 Carter, Georgia A 4 F B _____ Kentucky _____ _____ Jan _____ Whooping Cough
213 Rice, Taylor ? M W _____ Indiana _____ _____ Sept ? Killed by Lightening
223 Mix, Chester 2/12? M W _____ Indiana _____ _____ Dec _____ Cholera Infantum
233 Elliott, Edward 11/12 M W _____ Indiana _____ _____ Jan _____ Pneumonia
235 Bemish, Rosanna 1 F W _____ Indiana _____ _____ ? _____ Whooping Cough
240 Foltz, Mickelena(Foltzenlogel) 16? F W _____ Ohio _____ _____ Feb At home ?
242 Kinshauff, Joseph? 1 M W _____ Indiana _____ _____ March _____ Whooping Cough
253 Kellar,? F W _____ Indiana Yes Yes Sept At Home ?

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Center Township reported by Daniel Bacon Ass't Marshal
Very Hard to Read
35 Minton,Benjamin? 37 M W M New York ____ ____ Aug Painter ?
43 Boswell, Elva M 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Worms
54 Shepherd, Albert 3 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Diarrhea
74 Bowers,Martin? 19 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept At Home Typhoid Fever
75 Redman, George W 46? M W M Kentucky ____ ____ Dec Farming ?
76 Monroe, George W 11 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan At home ?
82 Johnson, Mary A 10/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Nov ____ ?
115 Mahoney, John 23 M W M Indiana Yes Yes June Farming ? ? Liver
119 Vawter, Frances 84 F W W ? ____ ____ Oct ? Debility
121 Knaub, Mariah 51 F W M Indiana Yes Yes Mar Keeping house Rhumatism
144 Johannis, Peter 56 M W M Prussia yes yes ? Farming Consumption
145 Decker, Mary 52 F W ____ ? ____ ____ ____ ____ Debility

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in North Vernon/Center Township reported by Daniel Bacon Ass't Marshal
Very Hard to Read
6 Kimmel, Matilda 16 F W ____ Indiana yes yes Aug At home Congestion of Lungs
9 Baldwin, Florence ? 3 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Diarrea
9 Baldwin, Frank W 7 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Diarrea
35 Conner, Howard L 8 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ Inflamation of ?
45 Tate, Francis 1 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Dec ____ Measles
61 Chenowith, James 35 M W M Indiana ____ ____ Sept Farming Congestion of Lungs
62 Tennis, Mollie 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ July ____ Cholera Infantim
73 Alley, Oscar 1 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ Whooping Cough
? Peacock, Sarah 43 F W W Indiana ____ ____ Apr Keeping house ? ? Stomach
122 Pollard, William M W M Indiana ____ ____ Aug Farming Diarrea
130 Jackson, Lettie A 34 F W M Indiana ____ ____ Sept Keeping house Diarrea
130 Jackson,?ida 2 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ Congestion of Lungs
140? Davis, Samuel 4 M B ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Whooping Cough
142 Smith, Thomas 58? M W M Ireland Yes Yes March Laborer Consumption
163 Gorbet, Chester S 6 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ ? ____ Diarrea
166 Carr, Richard 38 M B M Kentucky ____ ____ Feb Laborer Consumption
167 Dixon, Samuel M. 43 M W M Indiana ____ ____ July Invalid Paralysis
177 Gaughan, Mary 12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March At home Intermittant Fever
184 Kock, Sebastian ?/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ Dec ____ ____ Whooping Cough
193 Reese, Ida 2 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Apr ____ Pneumonia
203 Whitcomb, Kate 10/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Dec ____ Whooping Cough
151 Homes, Alice A 2 F W ____ Georgia ____ ____ Sept ____ ?
271 Foster, Luella 10/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug ____ Croup
276 Moneller, Simon 48 M W M Baden Yes Yes May Stonecutter Consumption
282 Gottwallis, Helena ?/12 F W ____ Indiana Yes ____ Oct ____ Croup
288 Houppert, Barbara 38 F W M France Yes Yes Sept Keeping House Disease of the Womb
306 Page, Samuel M. 6 M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes Feb ____ Inflamation of Brain
307 Morris, William 4/12 M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes Jany ____ Pneumonia
317 Hisenburg, Lovina? 48 F W W Prussia Yes Yes May Keeping House Consumption
321 Hinkel, Peter ? M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes May ____ ?
324 Menger, Michael 56 M W M Baveria Yes Yes Jan Stonecutter Consumption
329 Wahl, Nicholas 67 M W M Baveria Yes Yes March Farming Pneumonia
331 Woolsefer, Anthony 2 days M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes March ____ Debility
334 Harper, Benjamin 54 M B M Georgia ____ ____ May? ____ Consumption
349 ?, ? 1 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ Inflamation of Brain
353 Lee, James ? 3/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug ____ ? of Stomach

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Columbia Township reported by Daniel Bacon Ass't Marshal
Very Hard to Read
21 Smiley, Edith 5/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ ?
25 Town, William P 18 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept At Home Consumption
68 Corbin, George 58 M W M Maryland ____ ____ April Farming ?
75 Melson, Dora 2 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ Worms
77 Sharp, Oliver 2/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Teething?
81 Baker, Charles 1/12? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Debility
88 Parker, George 2 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ April ____ Typhoid Fever
89 Bennett, Sarah E 9? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ August ____ Consumption
89 Bennett, Charles 6? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ July ____ Whooping Cough
97 Remy, Henry 3/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Congestive Croup
123 Griner, Frederick 59? M W M Pennsylvania ____ ____ March Farming Consumption
128 Rogers, Zeddikiah ? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept At home Typhoid Fever
130 Hunter, Charles ? 3 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Pneumonia
137 Baker, Benton 12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ July At home Intermittant Fever
141 Smith, Diana? 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ ? ____ ?
147 Byram, Alzada? 4 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ April ____ Pneumonia
171 Millholland, John 60 M W M Ohio ____ ____ March Farming Kidney?
171 Vandusen, Solomon 26 M W M Indiana ____ ____ June Farming Consumption
189 Cooper, James 84 M W M Virginia ____ ____ Feb Farming Pneumonia
197 Patterson, Emma 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Whooping Cough

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Geneva Township reported by Daniel Bacon Ass't Marshal
Very Hard to Read
5 Hays, Sophia 4 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May At home ? of Stomach
9 Wright, James K? 21? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ July School Teacher
14 May, Margaret 43 F W M North Carolina ____ ____ Dec Keeping House Cancer
32 Barr, George H. 2 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ Pneumonia
35 Herron, Catherine 55 F W M Ohio ____ ____ Apr Keeping House Consumption
40 Herron, Jane ?? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Nov ____ Consumption
48 Clark, William 3/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Croup
71 Day, Minty 2/12? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ Whooping Cough
84 Henry, Mary ? F W M Indiana ____ ____ Aug Keeping Consumption
95 Kennedy, ?ag E. 2 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Disease of Brain
98 Richardson, Martha ? 2 F W ____ Kentucky ____ ____ ? ____ ? of Stomach
117 Wilson, Mary A. ?? F W M Indiana ____ ____ ? Keeping House Consumption
125 Alkins, Samuel 19 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Dec Farming Consumption
133 Hays, Harrison 1 day M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Debility
139 Frasee, Harriet 13 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ July ____ ?
144 Carson, Louisa 3 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ Scalded to death
153 Ballard, Lucy J. ? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ ? Disease of the Heart
155 Wiley, Melvina 4/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug ____ Disease of the Skin?
162 Long?, Francis ?/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Consumption?
208 Alexander, Elizabeth 33 F W M Indiana ____ ____ Jan Keeping House Child Birth
210 Corya, Infant ? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ Debility
210 Corya, Infant ? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ Debility
213 Amick, Lula? D. 3 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Sept ____ Pneumonia
213 Amick, Maggie? T. 1? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Pneumonia
262 Banks, John 33 M W M Indiana ____ ____ Sept Farming ?
270 Snatter?, Catherine ? Day F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ ? ____ Debility
271 Hoelt, Elizabeth 1/12 F W ____ Indiana Yes ____ Aug ____ ?
271 Hoelt, Henry 11 M W ____ Indiana Yes ____ March ____ ?
271 Hoelt, Caroline 2 F W ____ Indiana Yes ____ Feb ____ Consumption?
286 McCaffrey, John 82? M W W Ireland Yes Yes Sept ? Diarrea
292 Helfs, ? 3/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug ____ Cholear Infantum
332 McKeehan, George 71 M W M Pennsylvania ____ ____ Jan Farming Disease of Heart
250 Sutton, Benjamin R. 46 M W M Indiana ____ ____ March Farming
353 Jacob, Cox ?? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb Farm Labor ?
353 Taylor, David S. 38 M W M Ohio ____ ____ June Farm Labor Thrown from Horse
364 Jayne, ?anie 5/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Nov ____ Croup
383 Green, Aaron 69 M W M North Carolina ____ ____ May Farming Consumption
385 Hall, Lewis 1 day M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ April ____ Debility
398 Grinstead, Fanny 2/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Whooping Cough

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Marion Township reported by Thomas S. James Ass't Marshal

37 Wetzel, Amelia 1 F W ____ Indiana Yes ____ Feb ____ Convulsions
55 Foster, William 48 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May Farmer Inflamation of Heart
71 Lewis, Cyrus 15 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May Works on Farm Inflamation of Brain
80 Loftis, John 69 M W ____ England ____ ____ Feb Farmer Lung Fever
93 Denton, Charles 19 W M ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct Farmer Unknown
104 Stewart, Margaret 85 F W ____ Virginia ____ ____ Feb Keeping House Old Age
104 Lasenby, James 16 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ August Farming Suicide by Hanging
138 Barnes, Thomas 4 M W ____ ____ Indiana ____ Sept ____ Disease of Heart
153 Corya, Elizabeth 35 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug Keeping House Consumption
178 Wright, Emma 1/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Unknown
____ Ida 1/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Unknown
209(211) Liddle, James W. 14 M W ____ Ohio Yes Yes Sept Farming Lung Fever
224(226) Stewart, Alma 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ Congestion of Lungs
231(233) Davis, Margaret 28 F W ____ Indiana Yes ____ Feb At Home Consumption

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Montgomery Township reported by Thomas S. James Ass't Marshal

2 Brittingham, Sarah 7 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Dec ____ Diptheria
67 Dunham, Louisa 24? F W M Indiana ____ ____ Nov Keeping House Consumption
67 Dunham, Luizia? 5/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Feb ____ Consumption
70 Johnson, Nancy 41 F W M Indiana ____ ____ June Keeping House Consumption
120 Sampson, Annie? 2 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ Croup
124 Sage, Nancy 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ Croup
140 Dixon, Eliza M. 28 F W M Indiana ____ ____ Aug Keeping House Consumption
148 Eastman, Eberly 26 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug Farmer Consumption
159 Carson, Walter C. 1 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ June ____ Convulsions
159 Infant 8/12 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Jan ____ Lung Fever
224 Savage, Portus 65 M W W Vermont ____ ____ April Farmer Dropsy
242 Worthington, Samuel 39 M W M Kentucky ____ ____ Feb Farmer Consumption
252 Wells, Lemuel 69 M W M Ohio ____ ____ April Farmer Heart Disease
256 Carr, Ella 52 F W M Indiana ____ ____ Novem Keeping House Lung Fever

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Sandcreek Township reported by Daniel Bacon Ass't Marshal

3 Dickerson, Milton J. 27 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March Blacksmith Consumption
6 Boyd, Lydia J. 9/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ January ____ ? of Stomach
14 Cain, Ellen 48 F W M Indiana Yes Yes June Keeping House Diarrhea
18 How?, James 75 M W M Unknown ____ ____ March Farmer Heydrothorax?
23 Moncrief, Careg? J. 2 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ June ____ Debility of Brain
35 Scripture, Mary 73 F W W Unknown ____ ____ May Without Employment Fever
46 Barr, John W. 20 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ January Farming Consumption
56 Amis, Leon 1/24? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Unknown
61 Richardson, Joseph 80 M W W Pennsylvania ____ ____ Jan Farming Consumption
108 Beasley, Elizabeth 9/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ Yes Dec ____ Fever
129 Snyder, Asbury 30 M W M Ohio Yes Yes April Cooper Face Nose Cancer?
134 Gasper, Joseph 22 M W M Indiana Yes Yes Dec Farming Consumption
137 Rusche, Michael 79 M W M France Yes Yes Feb Farming Strangulation from bone?
165 Stearns, Joseph L. 55 M W M Ohio ____ ____ March Preacher? Chronic Rhumatism
168 Sansbuck, Michael 51 M W M Baden Yes Yes March Farming Pneumonia
170 Comley, Euphremia E. 1/24? F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Pneumonia
176 Roblya, Nellie B. 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Aug ____ Scrofula
Note at bottom of page by Daniel Bacon.
No 18 place of birth unknown, No 35 place of birth unknown presumed to be United States, No 56 cause of death unknown found dead in bed, No 129 Germans and the information could obtain was that he died with face nose, No 137 Became choked while eating got up and went outside and fell down and expired, No 176 Swelling in the Groins occasioned death in three days; the Dr did not know what was the disease probably Scrofula.

Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Spencer Township reported by Thomas S. James Ass't Marshal
(On Ancestry, page 1 of this census in not correct it must be from another township, household number 34 is on page 6.)
34 Lattimore, Marium 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ ? Flux
58 Whitcomb, Sarah 92 F W W New Hampshire ____ ____ Oct Keeping Old Age
60 Geary, Joseph 53 M W M Ireland ____ ____ Sept Laborer Run over by RR cars
258 Downs, Flora 4 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ Typhoid Fever
259 Conner, George 73 M W M Pennsylvania ____ ____ March Farmer General Debility
265 Robins, Alexander 23 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ July Farmer Diarrhea
266 Barnheart, Mary C. 62 F W M France ____ ____ Feb Keeping House Lung Fever
268 Stockinger, Bovhart 28 M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes Sept Farmer Chronic Diahrea
280 Spech, Catherine 52 F W M France ____ ____ March Keeping House Lung Fever Dis
283 Heob, Henry 58 M W M Bavaria ____ ____ April Farmer Cancer
292 Nighter, Wendel 46 M W M France ____ ____ Feb Farmer Lung Fever Dis
336 Young, Mary 8 F W ____ Ohio Yes Yes Sept At Home Persistant Fever
344 Fox, Jacob 2 M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes June ____ Accidentally Scalding
Note by Thomas S. James.
State of Indiana Jennings County SS
I swear that the foregoing 5 1/2 pages constitute a full and true copy of the census returns made by especial Marshal in and for the District assigned me according to the tenor of my oath of office and instructions.
Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June 1870, in Vernon Township reported by Thomas S. James Ass't Marshal
1 Pittman, Charles 1/12? M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Oct ____ Croup
25 Green, Infant ____ F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Stillborn
? Thompson, Horatio 57 M W M Maine ____ ____ July Farmer Consumption
? Johnson, Lydia 2 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Flux?
? Clark, Nickolas 5 M W ____ Kentucky ____ ____ Nov ____ Small Pox
? Newby, Catherine 39 F W W Georgia ____ ____ Dec Keeping Consumption
? Lattimore, Walter C. 62 M W W North Carolina ____ ____ March Farmer Consumption
? Walker, Edward 73 M W W Kentucky ____ ____ May Farmer Pneumonia
134 Schnadinger, John 1 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ March ____ Lung Fever
141 McPherson, Joseph M W W Ireland ____ ____ March ____ Pauper ?
141 Elkhart, Margaret 65 F W W Ohio ____ ____ Feb Pauper Heart Disease
141 Hart, Patrick 30 M W ____ Indiana ____ ____ Nov Pauper Accident
141 Dermint, Herchel 70 M W ____ Virginia ____ ____ Feb Pauper Debility
? Giboney, Agnes 1 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ Whooping Cough
? Harper, Riley 93 M B W Virginia ____ ____ Oct Farmer General Debility
? Gahn, Luan 10/12 F W ____ Indiana ____ ____ May ____ Whooping Cough
? Wetzel, John 18 M W ____ Indiana Yes ____ April Farmer Lung Fever
? Wetzel, Anna 5 F W ____ Indiana ____ Yes Sept ____ Chronic Diahrea
? Lahigh, Bridget 66 F W M Ireland ____ ____ Oct Keeping House Consumption
? Donaline, Anna 43 F W M Ireland ____ ____ March Keeping House Typhoid Fever
? Zook, Samuel 52 M W M Penn ____ Yes Jan Farmer Convulsions
? Specht, George 2 M W ____ Indiana Yes Yes Nov ____ Diptheria
? Summerfield, Johnson 32 M W M Ohio ____ ____ Jan County Clerk Consumption

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