Cemeteries: Jacksonville cemetery interments, 1886, Jackson County, Oregon 

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Jacksonville (Oregon) Democratic Times, Friday, 7 Jan 1887, p. 2

MORTUARY REPORT.

The following is a list of interments in the Jacksonville cemetery during
the year 1884. (Note: The "place of burial" named is a particular section
of Jacksonville Cemetery.)

R. S. Dunlap, sexton of Jacksonville cemetery has kindly furnished us with
his report of the interments in the cemetery for the year 1886, to-wit:

Jan. 3d - Wm. McNutt, aged 30 years; died of consumption. Buried in Town
cemetery. 
Jan. 9th - John Beard, aged 36 years; typhoid pneumonia. In Town cemetery. 
Feb. 12th - Wm. Drews, aged 54 years; consumption. In Town cemetery.
Feb. 28 - Richard Weeks, aged 43 years; dropsy. In Town cemetery.
March 12 - Lewis O'Neil, aged 51 years; executed by law. In Town cemetery.
March 23 - Mary Berg, aged 60 years, 3 months and 23 days; dropsy. In
German cemetery.
March 29 - Charles T. Thornton, aged 61 years; debility. In Town cemetery.
April 19 - T. F. Beall, aged 56 years, 7 months and 22 days; congestion of
heart. In Masonic cemetery.
April 24 - Edward Brown, aged 28 years and 6 months; consumption. In Town
cemetery.
April 30 - Andrew Davison, aged 55 years. In Town cemetery.
May 10 - Wm. W. Justus, aged unknown; poisoned. In Town cemetery.
May 17 - Edward D. McMahon, aged 11 years and 21 days; drowned. In Catholic
cemetery.
May 19 - Mary May Prefontain, aged 11 years and 4 days; heart disease. In
Catholic cemetery.
June 4 - Rhoda B. T'Vault, aged 75 years, 6 months and 15 days; debility.
In Town cemetery.
July 3 - Patrick McMahon, aged 42 years, aneurism. Catholic cemetery.
July 4 - Addison Helms, aged 61 years, 10 months and 5 days; kidney
disease. In Town cemetery.
July 4 - Caroline Whipp, aged 3 months and 10 days; cholera infantum. In
Town cemetery.
July 9 - Mary E. Elder, aged 22 years, 6 months and 7 days; consumption. In
Town cemetery.
July 10 - M. C. Brown, aged 60 years; consumption. In Town cemetery.
July 28 - Martin Hoover, aged 66 years; heart disease. In Town cemetery.
August 3 - Sarah A. Merritt, aged 27 years and 21 days; uremic poison. In
Town cemetery.
August 29 - James Doran; aged 44 years; consumption. In Catholic cemetery.
Oct. 24 - L. J. C. Duncan, aged 68 years; in Catholic cemetery.
Nov. 21 - Lena Johnson, aged 29 years and 23 days; kidney disease. In
I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Nov. 28 - Frank Krause, aged 35 years, 8 months and 23 days; liver disease.
In I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Dec. 2 - John Zurbrick, aged 62 years. In German cemetery.

Add to this list two Chinamen and it makes a total of 28 interments for the
year. Of this number six died of consumption, three of heart disease, two
of dropsy, two of debility, two of kidney disease, two of typhoid
pneumonia, two, disease not stated, one poisoned, one drowned, one of
aneurism, one of uremic poison, one of liver disease, one of cholera
infantum, and one executed by law. Twelve of these were 50 years old and
over, 11 were over 20 and number 50 and 3 under 20 years. Nine of these
belonged within the limits of Jacksonville, 9 died in the county hospital,
2 from Medford, 2 from Grant's Pass and 1 each from Williams creek, Central
Point, Foot's creek and Ashland.

The most noticeable feature of this year's mortality is the increased
number that have died in the county hospital and the unprecedented small
number of young children.