1870 Mortality Schedule

The mortality schedule was transcribed from the 1870 mortality schedule microfilm and only contains one page. I have transcribed this to the best of my ability.

Schedule 2 ------Persons who died during the Year ending 1st June, 1870 in ________________ in the county of Medina, State of Texas, enumerated by me, G. Mangold, Ass't Marshal.

(Note: G. Mangold's first name is George as that is what is written at the bottom of the page where he signed it.)

Column 1 = Number of the family as given in the 2nd column of Schedule 1. (note: if you look at the 1870 census the family number on this mortality schedule will match a family number on the census. This will tell you what family the person was living with.)

Column 2 = Name of every person who died during the year ending June 1, 1870, whose place of abode at the time of death was in this family.

Column 5 = Color---White (W.), Black (B.), Mulatto (M.), Chinese (Ch.), Indian (I.)

Column 7 = Place of Birth, naming the State or Territory of the U.S., or the country, if of foreign birth.

Family	Name	Age	Sex	Color	Marriage Status	Birth	F-F B	M-F B	Month	Profession	Death
75	Naegelin, Louis	8/12	M	W		Texas	\|	\|	May		Measles
84	Naegelin, Magdelina	57	F	W	M	France	\|	\|	October		Note 1
102	Tondre, Joseph	4	M	W		Texas	\|	\|	August		Croup
113	Haass, Henry	74	M	W	M	Bavaria	\|	\|	March	Farmer	Suicide
124	Loesberg, Catharina	15	F	W		Texas	\|	\|	June		Consumption
176	Saathoff, Antze Note 2	71	F	W	M	Hanover	\|	\|	March	Keeping House	Note 3
250	Wantz, Fransisca	70	F	W	M	France	\|	\|	January		Note 4
288	Vehr, Joseph	74	M	W	M	France	\|	\|	November	farmer	Note 5
297	Vey, Catharina	88	F	W	M	Prussia	\|	\|	July	Keeping House	Note 6
339	Batot, Gustave	10/12	M	W		Texas	\|		October		Fever
346	Vounan, Nelson Note 7	31	M	W		New Jersey	\|	\|	February	Merchant	Consumption
347	Mechler, Elisabeth	6	F	W		Texas	\|	\|	December		Croup
359	Tomerlin, Francis	62	F	W	W	Georgia			June	Keeping House	Note 8
365	Brown, Ellen	2	F	W		Texas			July		Scalded
397	Haass, Barbara	36	F	W	M	France	\|	\|	December	Keeping House	Note 9

Note 1 = I can't read what was originally written on the line because it has been marked through. Written above is the word Unknown.

Note 3 = Infirmity of age has been written on the line. The word Old has been written above.

Note 4 = Murdered by Indians has been written on the line, but the word murdered has been marked through. Another word has been written above the word murdered, but I can't make out what the word says.

Note 5 = Infirmity of age has been written on the line. The words Old Age have been written above.

Note 6 = Infirmity of age has been written on the line and the word old has been written above.

Note 8 = Infirmity of age has been written on the line, but the words Old Age have been written above.

Note 9 = Dlivery of Child has been written on the line and Child Birth has been written above.

Definitions come from Austin County TXGenWeb's page on Nineteenth Century Diseases

Consumption - A wasting away of the body; formerly applied especially to pulmonary tuberculosis. The disorder is now known to be an infectious disease caused by the bacterial species Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Synonyms: marasmus (in the mid?nineteenth century), phthisis.

Croup - Any obstructive condition of the larynx (voice box) or trachea (windpipe), characterized by a hoarse, barking cough and difficult breathing occurring chiefly in infants and children. The obstruction could be caused by allergy, a foreign body, infection, or new growth (tumor). In the early nineteenth century it was called cynanche trachealis. The crouping noise was similar to the sound emitted by a chicken affected with the pip, which in some parts of Scotland was called roup; hence, probably, the term croup. Synonyms: roup, hives, choak, stuffing, rising of the lights.

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