Aggregate Interments-Progress of Cholera at Lafayette, &c.
"We are under obligation of Mr. Meek, one of the sextons of the burying grounds of this city, for the following list of persons who have died of cholera and other disease since the 3d of this month, about the time this dreaded disease first made its appearance amongst us. It will found interesting to friends at a distance, serve as a suitable reference for the future, and contradict the erroneous reports abroad in the land, in relation to the fatality of the disease amongst us. It has been reported that we are burying on a average from twelve to fifteen per day, which will be perceived, by official statements which follow, to be quite incorrect. Some days, the interments, from all diseases, may have reached the number reported, but no two days together will furnish grounds for any such an average, and certainly the sexton's report is to be strictly relied upon, for in no instance, we may reasonably suppose, has any one died, but what has been buried in some of our burying grounds, and a list kept, from which we get the following copy. In some instances the names may be spelled wrong as they were rather badly written by the friends and relatives of the deceased, at the time of interment, but in most cases may be understood."
July 3d
John FRANBACH - infant - cholera
infantum
Virginia HARIER - aged 4 years -
cholera
infantum
Thomas COCHRAN - aged 33 years, a
native
of Ireland - cholera
July 4th
Henry MOORE - aged 21 years, a native
of Indiana - cholera
James TOTTEN - infant - cholera infantum
Malinda E. GODMAN - aged 5 years, 6
months, native of Lafayette - flux
July 5th
Betsy CROSS - aged 45 years - liver
complaint
July 6th
John PETERMAN - aged 45 years,
Lafayette
- cholera
Dennis SULLIVAN'S infant - nativity
of Lafayette - summer complaint
Mary Ann HOGAN'S infant - nativity
of Lafayette - disease, diarrhea
July 7th
John WINEBRIMER - aged 28 years, a
native of Ohio - cholera
July 8th
James M. FOSTER - aged 25 years -
consumption
July 10th
Detiach DEVOY - aged 40 years, a native
of New York - apoplexy
Margaret KEATING - aged 40 years, a
native of Ireland - cholera
Maria O'CONNERS - aged 10 years, a
native of Ireland - cholera
Ann FANERY - aged 30 years - a native
of Ireland - cholera
Margaret Perkins NAPIER - aged 41
years,
a native of New Brunswick - disease unknown
Sarah Ann WALKER - aged about 30 years
- disease unknown - wife of General WALKER
July 11th
John READER - aged 30 years, a native
of New York - cholera
James GRIFFEN - age unknown, a native
of Ireland - cholera
Isaac PYKE - aged 38 years, a native
of Pennsylvania - cholera
Catharine M'LAUGHLIN - aged 37 years
- cholera
Lorenzo VANNATENBURGH - aged 8 months
- summer complaint
Kate Brownlee M'LAUGHLIN - aged 16
months, a native of Lafayette - measles
July 12th
Mr. J. ROSSER'S infant - premature
birth
James GOSHORN - aged 18 months, born
in Lafayette - summer complaint
July 13th
Emily LOYD - aged 15 months - flux
- infant daughter of John LOYD
Elias B. POWERS - aged 37 years, a
native of Maine - cholera
William Henry ARNOLD - aged 16 months
- summer complaint
July 14th
Henry SMITH - aged 28 years, a native
of Holland - cholera
Thomas UNDERWOOD - aged about 60 years,
from Philadelphia - cholera
Mary Ann FUMMELL - aged 1 year, a
native
of Pennsylvania - summer complaint
Anthony M'MAINS' infant - aged 9 months
- cholera infantum
Mrs. COCHRAN - aged 24 years, a native
of Ireland - cholera
Peter A. BROWER - aged 36 years, of
Buffalo, New York - cholera
Robert MANSFIELD - aged 43 years, a
native of Ireland - sun struck
Colonel William E. RANK - aged about
35 years, a native of Pennsylvania - cholera
Mahitabel THOMPSON - aged 37 years,
a native of Vermont - cholera
July 15th
Infant son of James MILLER - age
unknown
- disease unknown
Thomas H. SMITH - aged 3 1/2
years, a native of Holland - worms
Mary HINES - aged 24 years, a native
of Ireland - cholera
Ellen Johnston - aged 35 years, a
native
of Ireland - cholera
Infant of Luther TOLLMAN - age unknown
- disease unknown
July 17th
Janus Alexander BALL - aged 4 years,
10 months - flux
Catharine HAMPEL - aged 8 years, a
native of Ireland - cholera
Julius Q. PETTIT - aged 4 years -
disease
not mentioned
William STOHL - aged 26 years, a native
of Germany - cholera
John H. SOMTON - aged 14 years, 4
months,
a native of New London - cholera
Jerusha CASWELL - aged 2 years - quick
consumption
Henra ASHBY - aged 1 year, 8 months
- cholera
Benjamin ASHBA - aged 30 years, a
native
of Ohio - cholera
Clara HOUST - aged 25 years, a native
of Germany - cholera
July 19th
Jacob P. WALLACE - aged 40 years, a
native of Ohio - cholera
Cynthia WALLACE - wife of Jacob P.
Wallace - cholera
James F. CLARK - aged 44 years, a
native
of Vermont - cholera
July 20th
John A. PETTIS - aged 21 years, of
Ohio - cholera
James F. BROWN - aged 10 years, a
native
of Ohio - cholera
Elizabeth HAUVEMAN - aged 32 years,
a native of Germany - cholera
Mary Jane BYAN - aged 31 years, a
native
of Ireland - cholera
Joseph FAUST - infant - cholera
John SCHREIVER - aged 40 years, a
native
of Germany - cholera
Robert BAILEY - aged 24 years, a native
of Ireland - cholera
Uhlreig LAHR'S wife - aged 54 years,
a native of Germany - cholera
Mrs. Bridget CARNIGAN - aged 25
years, a native of Ireland - cholera
July 21st
Frederick HILLIKER - cholera
James GREER - Mattman and T. HOASEMAN
or HARRIMAN is all we can get
from three entries in pencil marks,
on the sexton's book.
July 22nd
Morgan SMITHON - aged 5 years, a native
of New London, Connecticut - cholera
Ann WHEATON - aged 23 years, a native
of Ireland - cholera
Elizabeth SMITH - aged 7 years, 6
months
- cholera
Dan BYAN - aged 25 years, a native
of Ireland - cholera
George CARDER - aged 49 years, a native
of Virginia - cholera
John BLANCHFIELD - aged 40 years, a
native of West Canada - cholera
Alonzo VANVALKENBURGH - aged 8 months
- cholera infantum
Robert CUSHING - aged 50 years, a
native
of Ireland - cholera
Ellen CUSHING - aged 23 years, a native
of Ireland - cholera
Richard CARNEY - aged 38 years, a
native
of Ireland - cholera
Sarah Francis HALLIDAY - aged 4 years
- croup
July 23d
Sarah RUFFIN - infant - summer complaint
Ephraim ALLEN - aged 40 years, a native
of New Jersey - cholera
Lore B. YALL - aged 2 years - flux
Washington PARKE - aged 3 years, 5
months - cholera
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