YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CENSUS - 1850 Mortality Schedule ----¤¤¤---- 1850 Yancey County, North Carolina Mortality Schedule **************************************************************************************************** Column Headings ________________ 1. Name of every person who died during the year ending 1st June, 1850 whose usual place of abode at the time of his death was in his family. 2. Description - age 3. Description - sex 4. Description - colour - white, black, or mulatto 5. Description - free or slave 6. Married or widowed 7. Place of birth, naming the state, territory or country 8. The month in which the person died 9. Profession, occupation, or trade 10. Disease, or cause of death 11. Number of days ill **************************************************************************************************** Schedule 3 - Persons who died during the year ending 1st June, 1850 in the County of Yancy, State of North Carolina, enumerated by me, Lorenzo D. Poteet, Ass't. Marshal. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Finetta Briggs 2 F W F - North Carolina Jany - Pertussis 35 Hyram Ray 2 M W F - North Carolina Feby - Pertussis 40 Unnamed Hutchens 1/365 F W F - North Carolina April - Unknown 1 Unnamed Hutchens 1/365 F W F - North Carolina April - Unknown 1 Thomas M. Riddle 1/12 M W F - North Carolina Oct - Erysipelas 9 John A. Duncan 1/12 M W F - North Carolina Jany - Pertussis 30 Rachel Ray 1 F W F - North Carolina Jany - Pertussis 60 Atkin Boon 3 M W F - North Carolina April - Epilepsia 1 Sarah E. Burgin 4/12 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Croup 4 Mary M. Turbyfill 41 F W F M North Carolina May - Apoplesia 2 Hannah Findlay 50 F W F W North Carolina Feby - Unknown 3 Emeline B. Kieth 32 F W F M North Carolina Feby - Typhoid Fever 5 William Edwards 86 M W F W North Carolina Feby Farmer Old Age 3 Unnamed Honeycutt 1/365 F W F - North Carolina July - Unknown 1 Solomon Jones 73 M W F W North Carolina June Farmer Anasarca 180 Harriet L. Laws 4/12 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Unknown 30 Susannah Hampton 60 F W F W North Carolina Oct - Unknown 90 Bacchus B. Bailey 14 M W F - North Carolina Nov - Unknown 8 Charles Bailey 60 M W F M North Carolina Decr Farmer Viceral Calculi 270 Nancy Edwards 1/365 F W F - North Carolina April - Unknown 1 Clarissa J. Baker 5/12 F W F - North Carolina May - Erysipelas 5 Elizabeth Honeycutt 82 F W F M North Carolina June - Rheumatism C" Willis F. Phillips 7/365 F W F - North Carolina Nov - Croup 2 Sarah Deyton 82 F W F W North Carolina Nov - Apoplexia C" William M. Thomas 10 M W F - North Carolina Oct (Infla. Brain) Encephalitis 5 Catherine Slagle 88 F W F M North Carolina Feby - Unknown C" Isaac Ledford 14 M W F - North Carolina July - Typhoid Fever 49 Unnamed Bailey 4/12 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Erysipelas 21 Elizabeth Wilson 42 F W F M North Carolina Augst - Typhoid Fever 10 James O. Wilson 44 M W F W North Carolina Sept Farmer Typhoid Fever 21 Unnamed English 5/12 F W F - North Carolina Augst - Unknown 8 Elulla E. Childs 1 F W F - Massachusetts Sept - Diarrhaea 7 Esther Gilbert 70 F W F W North Carolina Jany - Unknown C" Unnamed Carver 2/365 F W F - North Carolina April - Monster 2 Unnamed Phillips 1/365 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Premature Birth 1 Thomas Lloyd 76 M W F M Georgia Nov Saddler Apoplexia Sudden Nancy A. Thomas 1 F W F - North Carolina May - Accident 180 Elizabeth Tolly 6/12 F W F - North Carolina Nov - Erysipelas 35 William Cox 42 M W F M North Carolina Sept Farmer Typhoid Fever 6 Mary M. Garland 16 F W F - North Carolina Decr - Ascetis C" Unnamed Gardner 18/365 M W F - North Carolina April - Unknown 14 Sarah Hopson 79 F W F M North Carolina Sept - Accident 28 William Henson 50 M W F M North Carolina Decr Farmer Encephalitis 2 Mary McIntire 18 F W F - North Carolina April - Typhoid Fever 18 Elvira Evans 1/12 F W F - North Carolina Jany - Erysipelas 1 Peter Watts 100 M W F M North Carolina May Traymaker Unknown 56 Elzira McIntosh 7 F W F - North Carolina March - Typhoid Fever 9 Calvin McIntosh 9/365 M W F - North Carolina March - Unknown 1 John Shepherd 48 M W F M North Carolina Nov Farmer Typhoid Fever 21 Unnamed Elkins 2/365 M W F - North Carolina Feby - Unknown 1 Owen Griffey 10 M W F - North Carolina Decr - Laryngitis 3 Robert Griffey 1 M W F - North Carolina Decr - Laryngitis 4 Idemia Gosnell 7 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Unknown 21 Nancy Wallen 7 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Laryngitis 2 Silas Gillispie 75 M W F M North Carolina May Farmer Unknown 7 William A. Peck 44 M W F M North Carolina Decr Farmer Rheumatism C" Nancy E. Parris 6 F W F - North Carolina July - Typhoid Fever 7 Unnamed Whittemore 2/365 M W F - North Carolina March - Erysepelas 2 Blanchy L. Kieth 9/12 F W F - North Carolina Feby - Typhoid Fever 10 Deaths Whites, 59 Matilda (Penlands') 2 F B S - North Carolina April - Unknown 21 Margaret (Shepherds') 1 F B S - North Carolina April - Unknown 30 Margaret (Flemmings') 3 F B S - North Carolina Nov - Pertussis 9 Harriet (Rowlands') 6 F B S - North Carolina May - Burn 3 Malinda (Hortons') 2 F B S - North Carolina April - Pneumonia 21 Unnamed (Byrds') 15/365 F B S - North Carolina Jany - Erysepelas 3 Maria (Rays') 2 F B S - North Carolina Jany - Croup 5 Deaths Slaves, 7 Total 66 Remarks: The Typhoid Fever is the most prevalent disease here. This country is mountainous, the water is pure, transparent, freestone. The growth is principally Hickory, Oak, Chesnut, Cherry, Gum, Poplar, Dogwood, Walnut, Locust, Syan, Mulberry, Beech, Sycamore, Pine, Balson, etc. It is supposed that there are great quantities of various mineral. There has been some lead found and from the general features of the earth there must be silver and gold. The soil is rich, dark and productive. There are various species of stone flint, granit, steatito, etc. etc. **************************************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Stefanie Whitson stefanie410@hotmail.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------