1870 Monroe County Deaths

(Taken from posts made by Sandi Gorin to the South-Central-KY list.)

Note: Flux was running rampant .. this is a "milder" form of cholera and was sometimes called the summer cholera.
Taken from the microfilm:

District#1:
Marcy C. GARMON, 2, f, w, KY, Nov, croup.
Margaret C DOPEY, 2, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Robert B. WILKINSON, 36, m, w, md, TN, Nov, farmer, typhoid.
Sarah C GOODMAN, 8/12, f, w, KY, Oct, brain fever.
Phebe CHISM, 10/12, f, w, KY, Sept, congestion of lungs.
John W LOW, 6/12, m, w, KY, Apr, hives.
Virgil H JORDAN, 11/12, m, w, KY, Nov, brain fever.
John MITCHEL, 80, m, w, md, VA, Dec, palsey.
Infant Lane - a twin, 1/12, both males, KY, May, unknown.
Rafoil HOWARD, 74, m, black, md, TN, Nov, farmer, murdered.
James F WILLIAMS, 24, m, w, TN, Nov, epilepsy.
Naekie DUNN, 21, f, mulattor, KY, June, domestic servant, unknown.
Chilsae MAHANCE?, 68, m, w, md, NC, Jan, farmer.
James L CLARKSON, 76, m, w, md, VA, Apr, farmer, gravil.
Rachel M YORK, 1, f w, KY, May, disease of bowel.
Frances HOLLAN, 40, f, w, md, KY, May, consumption.
Arzilla F CREEK?, 5, f, w, KY, Oct, scarlet fever.
Almina FLIPPIN, 36, f, w, md, KY, Aug, consumption.

Precinct#2 - taken by Samuel Martin.
Martha S BROWN, 11, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Able LOYD, 73, m, w, md, TN, June, farmer, consumption.
Henry S KING, 3/12, m, w, KY, July, croup.
Louisa W FISH, 26, f, w, md, KY, Feb, consumption.
Deluda FISH, 10/12, f, w, KY, Mar, croupe.
Julia A. ROBERTS, 59, f, w, widow, NC, Aug, dropsey.
Mary WALDON, 10/12, f, w, KY, July, flux.
John J T HALL, 3, m, w, KY, July, flux.
Thomas A NEAL, 50, m, w, md, TN, Aug, farmer, consumption.
John ISENBERG, 72, m, w, md, VA, March, farmer, dropsey of heart, his father of foreign birth.
Emilene LAWRENCE, 12, f, b, TN, May, dropsey of abdomen.
Susan M C BRYANT, 1, f, w, KY, July, typhoid fever.
Claracy J THOMAS, 1, f, w, KY, July, flux.
Martha E THOMAS, 2, f, w, KY, July, flux.
Edatha F ENGLAND, 9, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Phebe CHISM, 16, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Lancaster COOPER, 82, m, w, widow, VA, Dec, old age.
Bed J. FITZGEALES, 1, f, black, KY, Sept, Gastro enteeeritis.
Freelinghyton MARTIN, 1, m, black, KY, Aug, flux.
Martha E RAY, 1/12, f, black, KY, Apr, marasmus?
Benjamin B JOHNSON, 3, m, black, KY, Apr, lung inflamation.
John H RIDDLE, 1, m, w, KY, Sept, flux.
Tasha WEBB, 6, f, w, KY, July, flux.
Ewel G FITZGEARLD, 1, m, w, KY, July, flux.
Joseph T FITZERALD, 6, m, w, KY, July, flux - same house as Ewel.
Clarence EUBANK, 9/12, m, w, KY, July, flux.
William A HOOD, 2, m, w, KY, July, flux.
James W MYERS, 8/12, m, w, KY, Apr, pneumonia.
Lyda A MYERS, 1, f, w, KY, July, pneumonia - same house as James W.
Archibald LANE, 89, m, m, w, widow, VA, Sept, farmer, old age.
Jesse H BELCHER, 7, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Mary M SMITH, 2, f, w, KY, Sept, flux.
Hugh K TURNER, 20, m, w, md, KY, Aug, farmer, hydro-thorax.
Louisa C HAYSE, 4, f, w, KY, Sept, brain inflamation AND
Robert H HAYSE, 4/12, m, w, KY, Feb, same.
William T TURNER, 3, m, w, KY, July, flux.
Abraham DICKERSON, 19, m, w, TN, Mar, cerebral spinal meng.
Sarah TURNER, 63, f, black, VA, Sept, domestic servant, hemorrhage.

Precinct #2 taken by Samuel MARTIN:
Susan F GENTRY, 10, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Margaret BASTLEY, 95, f, w, widow, KY, Aug, old age.
John T RIGGS, 1, m, w, KY, July, flux.
John MOREHEAD, 57, m, w, widow, VA, Feb, farmer, consumption
Fanny E BRAY, 1, f, w, KY, July, disentary.
Martha T CARTER, 17, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
William S STRODE, 2, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Joseph NORMAN, 62, m, w, md, KY, Mar farmer, dropsy.
Henry B BUSHONG, 1/12, m, w, KY, Oct, croupe.
Walter B EMBERTON, 8, m, w, KY, July, flux.
Evy H CHAPMAN, 11/12, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
William WRIGHT, 69, m, w, md, VA, Nov, carbuncle.
Martha D PALMORE, 5, f, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Matilda J CHAPMAN, 2, f, w, md, KY, Jan, pneumonia.
Nancy M HARPER, 28, f, w, md, KY, Jan, pneumonia.
Infant HARPER - 1/12, m, w, KY, Jan, masamus, same as mother above.
Josaphine WALDON, 18, f, w, KY, md, Sept, parturition.

PRECINCT#4:
Sarah RICHARDSON, 1, f, black, KY, Feb, consumption.
Joseph ANDERS, 7, m, black, KY, Nov, comsumption.
Mary ANDERS, 24, f, black, KY, Mar, consumption - different household from one above.
Ellen GENTRY, 12, f, black, KY, Oct, consumption.
Lucy C SCOTT, 1/12, f, w, KY, Dec, premature birth.
William S ANDERSON, 45, m, w, md, KY, Aug, farmer, diarrhea.
Amanda J. VAUGHTER, 37, f, w,KY, Apr, consumption.
James R PITCOCK, 27, m, w, md, KY, July, farmer, hem. of lungs.
Ruben H WYATT, 74, m, w, widow, KY, Jan, blacksmith, asthma.
Mary PENNINGTON, 61, f, w, KY, Apr, apoplexy.
Samuel G MARTIN, 30, m, w, md, KY, Jan, farmer, consumption.
Margaret T VANDOVER, 1, f, w, KY, Oct, marasmus.

PRECINCT #5:
Rebecca HALSEL, 79, f, w, widow, NC, May, asthma.
Lucy WHITESIDES, 4, m, w, KY, Dec, rheumatism.
Edward DICKEN, 17, m, black, KY, July, farm laborer, consumption.
Lucetty C DICKEN, 10/12, f, black, KY, Jan, typhoid fever, same household as above.
Isham DICKEN, 70, m, w, md, KY, Sept, farmer, carbuncle.
Archibald McMILLIN, 69, m, w, widow, KY, Oct, farmer, Bright's disease.
Patterson HILL, 1/12, m, w, KY, Feb, premature birth.
Elizabeth H COE, 10, f, w, KY, Jan, rheumatism.

PRECINCT #6 - taken by Samuel MARTIN.
Angeline P STEWART, 26, f, w, md, KY, Jan, puerperal convulsions.
William JACKSON, 79, m, w, widow, VA, July, farmer, old age.
Elizabeth POLAN, 30, f, w, md, KY, Aug, unknown.
William S CARLILE, 1, m, w, KY, Dec, pneumonia fever.
Martha BAILEY, 79, f, w, md, SC, Aug, old age.
Mary M COMBS, 74, f, w, widow, KY, Aug, general dropsy.
Infant RENEAU, 1/12, m, w, KY, Feb, marasmus.
Malissa E CHISM, 1, f, w, KY, Aug, diarrhea.
James CURTIS, 32, m, w, md, KY, July, farmer, consumption
James E BRYANT, 42, m, w, md, NC, March, farmer, killed by a falling tree.
James E FULKS, 8/12, m, w, KY, Oct,  croupe.
Elizabeth BIRDWELL, 84, f, w, widow, TN, Jan, old age.
Jackson KING, 49, m, w, MD, TN, May, farmer, measles.
Matilda E KELLON, 5/12, f, w, KY, Nov, asphixia and
Sarah E KELLON, 20, f, w, KY, Jan, consumption
Sarah GENTRY, 79, f, w, md, KY, Aug, congestive chill.
John E PAGE, 10/12, m, w, KY, June, measles.
Infant JONES, 1/12, m, w, KY, Apr, marasmus.
Mahlon HOWARD, 2/12, m, w, KY, Oct, croupe.
Infant DENHAM, 1/12, f, w, KY, Apr, croupe.
James L WALKER, 11, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Elzaza W FULKS, 7, f, w, KY, July, flux.
James T CRICY, 5, m, w, KY, July, flux and
John C CRICY, 3, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Caswell HOWARD, 3, m, mulatto, no age shown, KY, May, flux
Nancy CHISM, 95, f, black, widow, MD, Dec, old age.
George HOWARD, 41, m, black, KY, July, farmer, hemmorrhage of lung.
Sarah FORD, 30, f, w, md, KY, May, scrofulla.
Jane WOODSON, 75, f, w, widow, SC, Sept, old age.
William C BORIN 10, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Celia WILSON, 64, f, w, md, GA, Apr, heart dropsy.
William W RASH, 1, m, w, TN, Aug, croupe.
Infant WOODS, 1/12, m, w, TN, Jan, croupe.
Walter O PATTERSON, 9/12, m, w, IL, Aug, whooping cough.
James STALLINGS, 4, m, w, TN, Aug, flux.
William KINGERY, 59, m, w, md, KY, Feb, farmer, paralisis
Angeline P Stewart died in Dist 6. Since that time and prior to 1st June 1870, her husband became a house keeper in the town of Tompkinsville.

PRECINCT #7 - taken by Samuel MARTIN.
Andson J NANNIE, 15, m, w, KY, Sept, congestive chills.
James B FITZGERALD, 1, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Permelia ZUPTIGSON?, 38/88, f, w, widow, NC, Oct, flux and
Francis ZUPTIGSON?, 52, m, w, TN, Nov, farmer, flux.
Hesam T BOWLES, 1, m, w, KY, July, flux.
Susan M LYNS 26, f, w, KY, June, pneumonia.
William L PERCELL, 52, m, w, md, TN, Nov, medical physician, chronic rheumatism.
Thomas BACON, 16, m, w, KY, Oct, congestive chillls.
Sanford A Bray, 6/12, m, w, KY, July, flus and
Starford R Bray, 9/12, m, w, KY, Aug, flux.
Lamantha BARTLEY, 2 or 8, f, w, KY, Aug, Gastroentritis.

TOMPKINSVILLE - taken by same:
Lucinda GLAZEBROOKS, 52, f, w, md, KY, Nov, typhoid fever.
John R HUNTER, 4/12, m, w, KY, July, marasmus and
George A HUNTER, 3/365, m, w, KY, Apr, marasmus
Peter BUCKNER, 24, m, mulatto, Mar, KY, common laborer, cerebal spinal meng.


This concludes 1870 - next week I'll start 1880. Sandi

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