Death Certificate of Amann, Mary Ellen Spellman July 15, 1897 Orleans Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Lisa Cotten  November 2001
Source:  LA State Archives, Baton Rouge, LA Orleans Parish Deaths Volume 114 Cert #355

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Be it remembered, that on this day to wit: the fifteenth of July in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Ninety Seven and the One Hundred
and 22 of the Independence of the United States of America, before me, S. R.
Olliphant, M.D., Chairman Board of Health and Ex-Officio Recorder of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in and for the Parish of Orleans, personally appeared
Jno. A. Barrett, an Undertaker, native of this city, residing at corner
Pelican Ave -Belleville Sts, Algiers, who hereby declares that Mary Ellen
Spellman, lawful wife of Jules Amann (White) a native of this city, aged 28
years departed this life yesterday (14 July 1897) at no. 612 Pacific Ave,
Algiers, in this city.

Cause of Death:  Asthenia
Certificate of Dr. V.F. Lowe (?)

Thus done at New Orleans in the presence of the aforesaid J.A. Barrett as
also in that of P. H. Lanauze and L. B. Schlbach (?) both of this city,
witnesses by me requested as to be, who have hereunto set their hands,
together with me after reading hereof, this day, month, and year first above
written.
(Signed) S. R. Olliphant, M. D.

**Asthenia:  Weakness or debility (Neurocirculatory: Da Costa's or effort
syndrome; irritable or soldier's heart, a syndrome of functional nervous and
circulatory irregularities, characterized by increased susceptibility to
fatigue, palpitation, dyspnea, rapid pulse, precordial pain, and anxiety.

**From letter written to her mother in 1868, it seems that "Baby Nell" had
been a "sickly" child.