Benzie County
1870 Mortality Schedule

Contributed by Vicki Wilson





(not all questions were asked in each township)


Almira township


family 11, Ebenezer Wheelock, male, white, widowed, b. VT, d. Apr, farmer, 
paralytias


family 42, Electa Mansfield, 77, female, whie, married, b. VT, d. Aug, keeping 
house, consumption


family --, Sally Mansfield, 73, female, white, widowed, b. VT, d. Sep, keeping 
house, consumption


family 97, Mary Vemey, 3, female, white, b. OH, d. Dec, poisoned



Benzonia township


family 19, Lullu Belle Smith, 2, female, b. OH, d. Aug, inflamation in brain


family 32, Charly Marshall Rellil, 27, male, b. OH, d. Apr, engineer civil, drowned


family 40, Charly L. Bailey, 27, male, b. NY, d. Apr, farm laborer, drowned



Colfax township


family 7, Francis Hickey, 2, male, b. Canada West, d. Nov, cholira infuction


family 14, Sophia Grinch, 18, female, b. PA, d. Oct, typhoid fever



Crystal Lake township


family 1, Cind(?) Ball, 4, female, b. MI, father of foreign birth, d. July, 
typhoid fever


family 84, Ellen Fletcher, 24, female, b. IN, d. March, consumption


family 91, Adam Lackhart, 6/12, male, b. MI, parents of foreign birth, d. Nov, 
croup


family 102, John Cambell, 6/12, male, b. MI, d. Sep, cholorea infantion


family 114, William Rabor, 26, male, b. MI, parents of foreign birth, d. Dec, 
sailor, drowned



Homestead township


family 23, Harriet Sinclair, 64, female, b. DC, parents of foreign birth, d. Aug, 
seamstress, paralylias


family 25, Lori May Steele, 2, female, b. MI, d. Aug, whooping cough



Inland township


family 3, Burt Davis, 1/12, male, white, b. MI, d. July, cholera infantum



Platt township


family 10, Maggie Richbaugh, 3/12, female, white, b. MI, parents of foreign birth,
 d. June, cholera infantum







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