1850 Mortality Schedule
Thanks to Indiana Memory for the 1850 mortality schedule – please let me know if you see a mistake especially if you know some of the entries with ?
Division No 34 – enumerated by John W. Hall – 1850 Fountain County Mortality Schedule
Elizabeth Ewart 78 (28?) Female married born Ind died Feb not known 15 days
Jane HAWES 32 female married born PA died Aug typhoid fever 15 days
May FRALEY 2 months female born Indiana died August Not known ill 20 days
William M. GOBLE 1 month male (note: buried Newtown Cemetery 7 July 1849 – 5 Aug 1849) born Indiana died August cold 7 days
Sarah LAUGHTON 9 months female born England died November diarhea 14 days
James E. HESLER 1 male born Indiana died June not known ill 90 days
George H. BLACKBURN age 39 male married born KY died July Farmer fever 10 days
Elizabeth CAMPBELL 39 female married born KY died March not known ill 20 days
Austus ? GUSTON 1 month male born Ind died January croupe 3 days
John L. BRANT 16 male born KY died April Farmer lung fever 5 days
Christopher DeVORE 64 male born KY died Sept Farmer Liver complaint 90 days
Matthias BRANT age 4 born Ind died Sept Flux 14 days
Henry LAWRENCE age 70 male born VH ? died Oct Farmer old age 90 days
Ann McCORD age 78 female married born PA died Sept flux 14 days
Phebe YOUNG age 17 female married born Ohio died Oct pleurisy 10 days
John BUCKLEY age 9 months born Indiana March Croup 1 day
Nancy MARTIN 24 married born Ohio died Sept of flux 20 days
Nancy DUNKIN 10 female born Ind died August Flux 4 days
Charles B. DUNKIN 2 male born Ind died Aug? Dec? Flux 4 days
Hence ? DUNKIN 76 male married born PA died June farmer suicide
Ben TIMMONS 30 male married born Ohio died August Blacksmith Flux 8 days
Samuel ? A. WILSON 18 male born Indiana died Sept Farmer flux 28 days
Maria A. WILSON age 1 female born Indiana died Sept. flux 10 days
Not named KILLEN 1 month male born Indiana January died lung fever 7 days
Job CUDEL ? 76 male married born S Carolina died Sept sadler accident sudden
Not named MIILLER 1 month female born Indiana died July not known 3 days
Angeline EVANS 58 female married born MD died Sept Consumption 1 year
William BROWN 44 male married born PA died March Lawyer Tyfoid (sic) Fever 14 days
Daniel W. BROWN 2 male born Indiana died Oct Scarlet Fever 4 days
John MILLER 37 male married born Ohio died May not known 10 days
Mary HOAT ? 44 female married born England died June Belious fever 4 days
Patrick DUNAHUE 38 male married born Ireland died March Laborer Pleurisy 2 -
Eliza A. BURNS age 1 female born Indiana died April inflamed brain 14 days
George NOWLES, age 5 male born Indiana died March of croup ill 7 days
Mary E. McMILLIN, age 34 female married born Indiana died Oct of fever ill 9 days
June KILGORE age 21 female born Indiana died Sept of inflamed bowels ill 15 days
John REED, age 25 male born Indiana died June – farmer – died of consumption ill 1 year
Evin ECKLES 57 male married born Virginia. Died Sept. Farmer died of fever ill 10 days
Abby POTTER age 56 female married born New Jersey died in July of the flux ill 9 days
Catherine HICKMAN 44 female married born North Carolina died in Nov. of fever ill 15 days
Elijah ADAMS age 45 male born North Carolina died April farmer chills ill 2 days
Ephraim C. JONES age 38 widowed born Ohio died Feb Brick Mason died small pox ill 13 days
Albert H. JONES age 2 male born Indiana died May of fever ill 1 day
Helen FAGG ? female age 1 born Indiana died June of Lung Fever ill 14 days
Arthur McMILLIN 6 months male born Indiana died Nov of Hives ill 3 days
Jane LaBAW female age 54 married born in Pennsylvania died March of lung fever ill 43 days
Lavina CONNER 30/14 female born Indiana died August sinking chills sick 2 days – note: not sure what age that is exactly
Minerva PORTER age 42 female married born in Kentucky died Oct of Milk sickness sick 20 days
William FOSTER age 1 male born Indiana died Feb. lung fever sick 10 days
May E. WAGONER age 1 female born Indiana died Jan. burnt 21 days
Harvey E. COOK 2 months male born Indiana died September - Sinking chills
Eliza CRANE age 16 female born Indiana died Feb Winter Fever 14 days
Thomas BODLEY age 40 male married born Ky died Feb farmer Lung Fever 15 days
Sarah J. HALL ? Hase? 1 month female b Indiana died March inflammation of brain
Latemore HOMES age 21 male born N. Carolina died April School Teacher Measles 21 days
Elizabeth WHITEHALL age 45 female married born N. Carolina died March Measles 18 days
Matthias M.E. TAYLOR age 10 months male born Indiana died Feb Lung Fever 9 days
John STEVENS 10 male born Indiana died Oct. sudden fall
Elizabeth RIGHT age 62 female born VA died Nov dropsy 1 year
Leah ZURNATT (?) female age 65 born KY died Oct pneumonia ? 90 days
David I. HINEMON age 52 male married born Ohio died July Cooper congested fever ?
JESSEE R. MICHEL age 6 months male born Indiana died Sept not known
Francis M. HENRY age 2 male born Indiana died Feb Measles 25 days
Anna OGLE age 5 born Indiana Died June “ of the heart 6 days
Newton HIXON age 6 months male born Indiana died August cholera infantum
Richard HIXON age 16 born Indiana died December Farmer d Measles 4 days
Not named FISHER 2 months female born Indiana died Sept not known 2 days
John DAY ? age 56 male married born KY died March Farmer Liver complaint
Leonard ? WILSON age 1 male born Indiana died April not known 14 days
Joseph MILLER age 30 male married born Germany died February Laborer Ague 7 days
William RIDGE ? Riley? Age 7 male born Indiana died April ? 9 days
John HOLEBROOK age 20 male born NY died April boatman drowned
Mary A. CAMPBELL age 4 female born Indiana died June measles 30 days
James C. THORNTON age 60 male married born VA died July Farmer ?
Obediah DOVE 54 male married born Mass died Sept Merchant chronic 2 years
Mrs ? DOVE 70 female married born Mass died August -- ?
Luetta ? LEACH ? age 6 died May small pox 5 days
--WABASH TOWNSHIP -- – 1850 Fountain County Mortality Schedule
Isaac ADKINS age 2 male born Ind died Sept Fits 2 days
Sarah E. CASTEEL age 9 born Indiana died January? Erysphilitis 6 days
Burton GILMAN age 4 born Indiana died May consumption – 6 days
George SULLLIVAN age 20 male born Ireland died July Coal Miner G. Fever 14 days
Sid? MEULINHOUS age 4 months born Indiana died December Fits 4 days
Mary ? WEBB age 1 female born Ind died May sickly ? child sudden
Washington WEST age 39 male married born Ohio died July Farmer consumption 34 days
George M. CRISENBURY? Age 7 born Indiana died July lung disease C (think this means chronic or perhaps it’s a 6 but doesn’t look like the other sixes)
Samuel GUY or GRAY 52 male born unknown died Feb Laborer – heart 35 days
Isabella GUY GAY or GRAY 15 female born Indiana died August fever 14 days
John McGEE age 55 male married born KY died April Farmer ? chronic
Phebe VANDORN 10 months female born Indiana died August croup 1 day
Hattie ? A. COOPER 20 female married born Virginia? Died May blisters ? don’t think so but ? chronic
Joana ? DOUGLAS age 18 female born Indiana died January Winter fever 4 days
Sarah E. CRANE age 10 female born Indiana died May maliganant ? 3 days
Jonathan M. HOLE age 6 male born Indiana died January spotted fever ? 4 days
Ann MARLOTT age 83 ? female widowed born VA died March – old age 15 days
Jane THISAMAN ? age 45 female married born KY died October C Fever ill 37 days
John MITCHELL age 30 male born VA died Feby Carder consumption chronic
Lewis PHEBUS age 65 married widowed born KY died July Farmer affliction kidney 20 days
Baker VAREYTLE 1 month male born Indiana died September unknown cause 15 days
Stephen A. GARDNER age 18 male born Indiana died July Laborer died of Cholera sick 1 day
Charity PHEBUS age 34 female married born Ohio died June Esyphilitis
Lucy M. COX age 3 female born Indiana died Dec. ? ill 30 days
Jeremiah HEATH age 50 male married born N. Carolina died September Farmer Esyphilitis sick 2 days
Sarah BARKLEY age 44 female married born KY died Dec of dropsy chronic
Mary A. DICE age 18 female married born KY died April of a cold ill 7 days
Mary A. SHARON age 1 female born Indiana died Dec chills chronic
Mary E. JAMES age 6 female born Indiana died June ? Face 2 days ?
Sarah WOOD age 48 female married born Delaware died August liver complaint chronic
David EVANS age 40 male widowed born PA died April scarfula ? chronic
Elvira (Saline?) MURRAY 9 months female born Indiana died Sept. Dysentary 60 days
Jacob WORKMAN age 38 male married b PA died Oct Shoemaker died lung fever 5 days
William GLOVER age 48 male married b. S Carolina died September Farmer hurt from fall sudden
-- JACKSON TOWNSHIP – John Fields enumerator - – 1850 Fountain County Mortality Schedule
Janey CORY age 39 female married born Ohio died June consumption chronic
William CASNDER ? age 40 male widowed born N. Carolina died December Farmer fits sudden
Robert NICHOL age 18 male born KY died Feb Farmer L. Fever 40 days
Elizabeth NICHOLS age 17 b KY died Oct L Fever 40 days
William D. MORGAN age 13 male born Indiana died June – milk sick (line can’t read days ill)
Elizabeth MORGAN age 36 female married born VA died June milk sick
John S. MORGAN age 16 male born Indiana died June Farmer milk sick
Elizabeth BUTTERY ? female age 10 female born Indiana died Febr ? July? Dropsy chronic
Charles LINDSEY 21 male born Ohio died Jany Carpenter small pox 13 days
Samuel K. THOMSON age 9 male born Ohio died Aug sinking chills 4 days
Catherine THOMSON 6 female b Ind died Sept Flu 19 days
Margaret THOMSON age 1 female born Ind died Sept Fits 2 days
Elizabeth BROWN age 58 female married born VA died March liver chronic
Perry TEMPLETON age 1 born Indiana died March inflammation of lung 5 days
Eliza C. MONFOUR age 1 born Indiana died Sept. c. infantum 6 days
Thilman BOYD age 22 male born Indiana died November Farmer – fever 16 days
Elizabeth A. COOK age 1 female born Indiana died February bold hives 7 days
Sylvester COOK 10 months? Male born Indiana died April unknown – sudden
Milton U. COOK age 18 male born Indiana died May Farmer lung fever 9 days
Maria MOSIER 44 female married born KY died Sept burned – sudden
Martha A. TOWELL age 7 female born Indiana died Sept choked sudden
Joseph M. ALLEN (MILLION?) age 37 male married born KY died April Farmer slipped on stone ? 11 days
Rebecca EARLY? Age 32 female married born Ohio died January sinking chill 10 days
Nancy S. MOORE age 25 female married born KY died January? Fever 11 days
Rebecca A. KIGER age 6 female born Indiana died August congestive chills 20 days
Joshua HARVEY age 76 male widow born N. Carolina died April no occupation died of syphilis ? 3 days
Sarah HOBART age 8 female born Indiana died Oct croup – sudden
Nancy L. Sloate (Shate Stote?) age 7 born Indiana died April ? dropsy? ?
Eliza MEAR age 28 female widow born KY died Oct Cancer? 6 weeks
Abby LUNGER 2 months female born Indiana died August Fits 7 days
Walter JOHNSON 2 months male born Indiana died April Croup 5 days
James C. CARMAN age 1 male born Indiana died August – Fits – sudden
Sarah F. COMINGORE 4 months female born Indiana died July Disease ? 6 days
Mary E. SMITH 11 months female born Indiana died May of lung disease 6 days
Jacob HIBBS 8 months male born Indiana died April winter fever 11 days
Remarks: The district has been afflicted by the prevalence of no malady of any particular – but a few cases of cholera in the summer of 1849 – this district __ almost the whole western country. A subject to the several returns of the fever & ague, this district is generally a timbered country with the exception of two small plains called Osborn & Scott Prairie. Timber of all the leading ___ of the western county grows naturally including all kinds of oak (except live – five? Oak) Sugar Hickory.
VanBUREN TOWNSHIP – John Fields Enumerator - – 1850 Fountain County Mortality Schedule
John KEELING age 53 male married born Virginia died June Farmer consumption chronic
Mary A. ZIMMERMAN 1 month female born Ind died March Unknown 3 days
Indiana ZIMMERMAN 1 month female born Indiana died March unknown 7 days
William COCHRAN age 73 male married born PA died August no trade died ? inflammation of head ? or ? heat? 15 days
Sarah A. ROWLAND 1 month female born Indiana August Dysentery 10 days
Christinia KEELING age 73 female (Note: Buried Keeling Cem Veedersburg 27 May 1775 – 27 March 1850 – Christinna Hickman Keeling) widowed born Virginia died March of old age – chronic
Samuel C. HARLAND age 17 male born Indiana died May Farmer ? 7 days
Mary E. SHAFER age 5 female born Ind died February heart dropsy ? 3 months
James H. DICE age 1 male born Indiana died Oct diarrhea 21 days
Jonathan BIRCH age 66 male married born Delaware died November Farmer strangulation sudden
Lena A. CRABTREE age 3 female born Ohio died Sept. Inflammation of brain 6 days
Sylvester LEESE age 17 male born Ohio died Sept. Farmer Inflammation of ? Lung? 15 days
Robinson LEESE 19 male born Ohio died Sept Farmer “ditto” 15 days
Barbara A. KELLION age 18 female born Indiana died Oct. Ditto 7 days
Remarks: Great extent – this coal is of a medium quality – in the extreme southern tract of Fountain County – salt has been made not however in any great quantities – an attempt to make the salt resources of this region profitable by Irwin Wallace and Norman Thomas make a number of years ago was suspended some four years since – a considerable amount of water power is afford to this district of Coal Creek.
--- TROY TWP – John Fields ? Enumerator - – 1850 Fountain County Mortality Schedule
Mahla LONG age 1 female born Indiana died August Worms? 60 days
Peter W. LESLIE age 13 male born Indiana died Dec Lung Fever 11 days
Elizabeth ANDERSON age 13 female born Indiana died Sept. B. Fever 7 days
Francis HAGELY age 20 male born Ohio died Dec. Farmer sinking chills 2 days
Mary STEELY age 83 female widowed born PA died January jearts 42 weeks
Edward WHITE age 35 male born Delaware died July Farmer Consumption chronic
William BILSLAND age 20 male born Indiana died Feb Farmer Heart? Fall? 5 days
Barnet BEAMAN ? BENSON? Age 40 male born Ireland died August Laborer ? ? ?
William HALL age 40 male married born ? Cea ? died May Butcher ? & Lung chronic
George HERBILL?? Age 33 male married Germany died July Laborer cholera 1 day
William BILLS (BIBLE?) Age 5 months male born Indiana died Sept Unknown
Jane C. BILLS (BIBLE?) Age 21 female married born CA died Dec chronic
Butler S. HARPER 22 male born NY died August Merchant –fever 4 days (note: buried Oak Grove, Covington born 8 May 1823 died 17 August 1849)
Andrew M. CARNAHAN? 24 male married born PA died Feb lawyer inf breast ? ?
Emma I. RAWLES age 18 female born Ind died May cold 5 days
Mahala BILSLAND age 27 female married born KY Died July infll bowels? 21 days
Joseph H. WILSON 2 months male born Ind died March croup 8 days
Jackson COCHRAN 48 male married born Ohio; died July merchant cholera 1 days
Susan COCHRAN 22 female married b VA died July of cholera 1 day
Charles COCHRAN 4 male born Indiana died July cholera 4 days
Phebe A. COCHRAN age 30 female married born Ohio died July affected liver ? 20 days
Rebecca COCHRAN 7 months female b. Ohio died July cholera 6 days
HENRY LANG ? 10 months male born Ohio died August diarrhea 20 days
Paulina C. HARPER age 1 female born Indiana died December died ? 62 days
William W. HALL age 1 male born Indiana died Oct flux 30 days
Emmavilla ? L. FRENCH ? 8 months female born Indiana died July diarrhea 10 days
Catherine S. MONTGOMERY 5 female born Ohio died December poisoned? 2 days
Rebecca WILETT ? 22 female Baltimore ? born July died cholera 1 day
Sarah F. MARTIN ? 7 months ? female born Indiana died July – inflammation of brain 4 days
Sara ? SEALEY 34 ? female married born Tenn? Died December dropsy chronic
Martin OLSEN? Age 6 born Indiana died July – fever 1 day
Francis A. BROWN ? 4 months female born Indiana died October chills? 3 days
Elenio ? BONEBRAKE age 26 female married born Indiana died May liver complaint chronic
Moses A. HINDS ? 34 male widow born VA died March inflammation of lungs 25 days
Sarah SHOFF 77 female widow born PA died March consumption chronic
Remarks: District is of a wet nature – in different places in the district sand rock is found, some of which are quarried, producing excellent rock for building purpose. Lime is also found in Jackson & Vanburen Township. Stone coal is found in almost every township in this district in ?????? hanging from one to four feet. Six inches tuck ? the greater portion however is in Fulton & Wabash Townships none of them have been worked to any amount.