added 2 Feb 2025

Mitchell co. Mortality Schedule 1870
Schedule 2
Persons who died during the year ending June 1, 1870
Enumerated in June, 1870, by N.L. Rood, Ass't Marshal

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Transcribed by S. Ferrall for Mitchell co. IAGenWeb, February 2025
(see full source citation at bottom of page)

- Important Notes -

The original form included column 5 for 'Color' and has been left off this transcription. If the deceased was any color than White, it is noted by the transcriber.

The original form included columns 8 & 9 to indicate "father foreign born" and "mother foreign born". These columns were combined in this transcription

Fields left blank on this transcription were also blank on the original images

Unreadable words are indicated as [illegible] in the transcription

The transcription includes words stricken out on the original images

 

Center twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
48 Ole Haugerud 6/12 M   Iowa x / x Feb   Lung fever Pneumonia
61 Ole Rustand 48 M M Norway x / x Feb Farmer Consumption
- [blank] 6/12 M   Iowa x / x Jan   Diarohea
70 W.G. Dudley 59 M M Ky   Jan Miller Consumption
77 Randina Johnson 37 F M Norway x / x Aug Kept house Inflamation of Lung

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Douglas twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
13 Henrietta Stark 25 F M Germany x / x Apr Kept house

Unknown, [illegible] & can't talk much, was invalid for years, can't find out disease
16 Minnie Eliz Wilmont 6/12 F   Iowa   Jan   Internal tumor in Abdomen
83 Carroll 1 d F   Iowa   Apr   death - no apparent cause, lived birth about one hour after

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Jenkins twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
7 Patrick Hennesey 65 M M Ireland x / x July farmer Congestion of Lungs
27 Margaret Schoonmaker 32 F M N.Y.   March kept house Consumption
42 Lemont Palmer 10 M   N.Y.   Dec   Inflam, Rheumatism of heart & dropsy
70 Charles Canon 97 M W Ireland x / x May farmer Quick consumption
76 Bridget Livey 62 F M Ireland x / x Aug   Lung fever dis of Pneumonia
82 George Sweene 1 9/12 M   Iowa x / x June   Inflamation Lungs
105 Orrin Foster 1 3/4     Iowa   Aug   Congeston of Brain

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Lincoln twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
36 Newton Towbridge 6/12 M   Iowa   Jan 8   Putrid fever, during sickness corpse turned spotted


Transcription note: Putrid fever is another name for typhus, a bacterial infection, causing high fever, rash & other symptions (source: various, found by a Google search)

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Mitchell twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
24 Wm E. Stacy 9/12 M   Iowa   Aug   Congestion lungs
30 Wm Rossiter 84 M W England x / x Oct farmer Soften brain & died Unknown
31 Alice Jane King 3/12 F   Iowa   Aug   Cholera Infantum
72 Jeremiah Fulsom 54 M M Vt   May 26 Merch't Cabinet dealer Consumption
134 Temperance Coleman 50 F M NY   Sept 9 Kept house Consumption
149 William W. Nofsinger 20 M   Wis   Aug 20 farmer Typhoid fever
190 George Buel 80 M W Conn   Sept 26 farmer Heart disease
215 Varnum Morrill 73 M W Vt   Apr 8 farmer Consumption
227 Lorenzo K. Aller 1 M   Wis   Aug 4   Measles

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Newburg twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
56 John Beverage 10 M   Mich x / April   Congestion of Brain
83 Hugh Alexander 81 M W Penn   Aug farmer Gangrene in leg
94 Freddie Fulton 7/12 M   Iowa   Feb   Inflammation of Lungs
96 Gilbert Edwardson 60 M M Norway x / x Oct farmer Can't find out Unknown


Remarks
83 Alexander - Had a fever sore in leg - went into gangrene and rotted up to the body and killed patient.

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Osage twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
65 Emil Miller 46 F M Penn   Dec Kept house Congestion of the brain
82 George Jordan 3/12 M   Iowa x / Sept   Cholera Infantum
89 Margaret Pierce 25 F M Penn   Jan Kept house Child birth no attachment
103 Charles B. Whitaker 27 M M Penn   Nov 3 farmer Abscess in the throat, choked to death when abcess broke
138 Frank Segerstone 5/12 M   Iowa / x Sept 20   Dropsy of the Brain
139 Ingra Peterson 34 F   Sweden x / x April 11 Kept house Typhoid fever
141 Lottie Merrill 4/12 F   Iowa   Aug   Inflamation of Stomach
160 Norman Van Sickel 9/12 M   Iowa   Oct 29   Congestion of the Lungs
162 Nels Peterson 2/12 M   Sweden x / x Jan 12 Laborer Typhoid fever, some indications of spotted fever
178 Julia Evans 1 F   Iowa   Jan   Injury to head by fall
183 George Hitchcock 5/12 M   Iowa   March   Fits, caused by fall
194 Fred Crapp 30 M M Hesse Ger x / x April Saloon keeper Dropsy - liver closed up the circulation to the heart and dropsy of upper bowels filled up body [illegible words]
228 - Moran 1 d M   Iowa x / x May 20   Injury during & died at birth
245 Hally Griswold 1 d F   Iowa   April   Died at birth for the want of breath
262 Martha Ida Kelly 8 F   Wis   Feb 14   Typhoid fever
294 Mortimer Bullard 1/12 M   Iowa   Jan   Scrofula
296 Eveline Rapp 37 F   Canada   Dec 25 Kept house Inflamation of Lungs
310 L. Louvier 3 d M   Iowa   Feb   Inattention, want of clothes & care at birth
321 Charles Salberg 21 M   Sweden x / x April laborer Consumption from Typhoid fever
381 Margaret Jordan 26 F M Maine   Sept Kept house Heart disease

[Enumerator's handwritten note:]
"Can't find any physician that has got anytime to make any remarks"

Remarks:
Crapp drank in one day 5 pts of whiskey - this closed up the circulation through the liver into the heart and the water in the blood thrust itself through the ducts into the upper bowels and filled the body up till breath was impossible - charge it up to whiskey & breach from the text - "God makes mad whom he would [illegible]"

Typhoid Fever was nearly spotted fever in its nature and appearance & Some physicians called it "Spotted fever". Some Typhoid & Red Spots both before and after death. All the Typhoid last winter was of a very malignant type. See Mortality report for "Stacyville Tp" [remainder of page cut off]
 
Transcriber notes: The remarks were at the bottom of the page. They appear to have been written by the enumerator due to his inability to find a physician to comment. The image was cut off at the bottom, where there may be additional information.

Scrofula is a swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck caused by a bacterial infection, usually tuberculosis. (source: various, found by a Google search)

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Otranto twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
29 Betsey Everson 1 F   Iowa x / x Aug   Measles
31 John Ogden 10 M   Iowa   June   Neck broke in falling from horse
56 Minnie A. Wilder 7/12 F   Iowa   May   Dropsy on Brain

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Rock twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
21 Ann Shoger 50 F M Norway / x Feb Kept house Lung fever Died of Pneumonia
73 [?] Frank Visher 5/12 M   Iowa / x May   Scarlet fever

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Stacyville twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
11 Edward Britton 55 M M N.Y.   Jan farmer Consumption
25 George Gilles 8/12 M   Iowa   Feb   Spotted fever
28 Albert Tuller 9 M   Iowa   March   Spotted fever
28 Sarah Tuller 6 F   Iowa   Feb   Spotted fever
28 Letta Tuller 10/12 F   Iowa   March   Spotted fever
29 Ida Blake 5 F   Iowa x / April   Spotted fever
37 Netta Fonda 2/12 F   Iowa   Nov   Dropsy of Brain
63 Ora Leo Pelton 6/12 M   Minn   March   Dropsy of Brain


Remarks: Spotted fever is described by the physician who attended these patients as "Cerebrae spinalis meningitis" ~Rood

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St. Ansgar twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
25 Arthur Rockwell 35 M M Penn / x March Boarding House Unknown Suddenly disappeared probably murdered
55 Nora Dickens 8/12 F   Iowa   Aug   Cholera Infantum
57 John Fritcher 63 M M Illinois   Dec Wagon Maker Mechanic Inflamation Kidneys
61 Bertha Helfritz 7/12 F   Iowa   Nov   Dropsey on Brain
66 Henry C. Parker 29 M M R.I.   July laborer Heart Disease
68 -- Swansen 35 M M Sweden x / x Nov laborer Consumption
85 Ole Colbean 1 d M   Iowa x / x June   Unknown, No cause
87 Teha Peterson 22 F M Norway x / x June Kept House Died of Liver Complaint
126 Duane Reynolds 10 M   Wis   March   Spotted fever


Remarks
No 85 & 87 are both of Norwegian families and don't know much of anything about disease. This is all the information I could elicit from the famlies.
~Rood, USM

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Wayne twp.

1-Family no. in Schedule 1 2-Name 3- Age 4- Sex 6- Marital Status
 7- Place of
birth		 8 & 9 - Parent of foreign birth
(F / M)		 10 - Month of death 11- Profession, Occupation
or Trade		 12- Disease or cause of
Death
37 Antheny Gallagher 40 M M Ireland x / x Nov farmer Kicked by horse, Wounded in abdomen

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- Credits -

Transcribed by S. Ferrall for Mitchell co. IAGenWeb., February 2025
Care has been taken to produce an accurate record, but errors are certain to exist - reading the handwritten records is at times very difficult. The researcher should personally verify the information.

Transcribed from images - source: "Iowa Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org: citing Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Iowa, 1850-1880, NARA publication number T1156. Records of the Bureau of the Census, RG 29 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)