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1860 Mortality Schedule

1860 Mortality Schedule - Upson County, Georgia

Upson County Mortality Schedule, 1860 Census
1860 Mortality Schedule, User Notes

Persons included in the Mortality Schedule were intended to be "every person who died during the year ending 1st June, 1860, whose usual place of abode at the time of death was in this family."

All data, including abbreviations, have been transcribed exactly from the microfilmed original, with the following exceptions: Ditto marks (") and the abbreviation (Do.) have been replaced with the data that they refer to. This ensures that, if lines of this database are electronically extracted or resorted, the data will not be confused. Doubtful readings are shown with [?].

COLUMN NAMES that may need explanation:

The left-hand number column was added by me to show the order in which persons were listed in the original schedule. The numbers are inherent to my database only, and do not represent any numbers on the original schedule.

First Name/Last name

The original record does not separate first and last names. I have done so to facilitate electronic searching or sorting, by those who may desire to do so.

Age

Ages for infants under one year old were given as fractions (example: 3/12 means three months)

Color

W= White, B= Black, M= Mulatto

F/S

F= Free, S= Slave

M/W

M= Married, W= Widowed

*Note: Three slaves (Cynthia, Rochester, and Eliza) near the beginning of the Mortality Schedule were marked "M" for married, then the "M" was lined out. No further slaves were identifed as married or widowed. This apparently reflects the census-taker's decision not to recognize slave marriages for Census purposes.

The 1860 Upson County census was collected by Georgia Militia District. The data in the Mortality Schedule follows the same sequence as the Population Schedule, but without the benefit of recording household numbers. Occasionally, lines in the Mortality Schedule were omitted. I wondered whether these omissions were meant to mark the beginning of a new militia district, but comparison with the Population Schedule ruled out that explanation. I do not know the significance of these blank lines (or whether hey have any significance at all), but I have left them in my transcription.

I have elected not to sort in alphabetical order. Because the order of names in the Mortality Schedule follows the order in which households were visited in the Population Schedule, comparison of the order in which deceased persons were recorded can identify the households in which they died. Numerous households had the same surname. If the Mortality Schedule is sorted alphabetically, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to associate a particular free dead person with the correct household. The slaves in the Mortality Schedule were listed by first name only, making family identification highly improbable from the start (although there is a theoretical chance to do this using proximity to owners, based on recorded sequence). Arranging slave names alphabetically would make identifying them absolutely impossible.

The Mortality Schedule included a "Remarks" section at the bottom of each page. The following remarks were included by the census-taker for Upson County:

"REMARKS: There has been no disease of a general character in this subdivision, Pneumonia & Typhoid Fever have been most [P?]revelant, Water pure, Oak, Hickory, Chestnut and Pine the chief Timber, some Flint Rock, though the larger portion granite, soil mixed a portion of the county stiff Red Clay the balance a [two illegible words] soil. disease prevailed the past season among the horned cattle mostly affecting the mouths, sometimes the feet, & again the whole body was diseased, spirits of turpentine or a solution of copper[?] used in the early stages of the disease was often successfully used as a wash for the diseased parts. Among the hogs the cholera was unusually fatal, many remedies were used but with little effect, some recovered under medicine & others without any in the early part of this year. Many hogs died with a swelling of the throat (like Quinsy) & generally proved fatal before any remedy could be applied, there are several springs in this county of Medicinal properties (not having been analyzed, I cannot give a description of their qualities[.] No Bills of Mortality are kept.

[signed] James Zorn Asst Marshall"

**1860 Mortality Schedule**
#	First Name	Last Name	Age	Sex	Color	F/S	M/W	Place of Birth	Month died	Occupation	Cause of Death	Days ill
1	Carrie L.	McDonald	19	F		F	M	Georgia	Jany 1860		Affection of Kidneys	8
2	Cynthia		60	F	B	S	M*	Georgia	Dec 1859	Cook	Appoplexy	4
3	Infant		1/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Feby 1860		unknown	1
4	Infant		1/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Feby 1860		unknown	1
5	Rochester		75	M	B	S	M*	Virginia	Dec 1859	Blacksmith	Dropsy of the heart	90
6	Name not	recollected	2	M	B	S		Georgia	May		affection of the eyes	1 year
7	Warren	Blakely	1	M		F		Georgia	Sept 1859		Cholera Infantum	12
8	Name not	known	1	M	B	S		Georgia	Oct / 59		Measles	24
9	Infant		3/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Sep / 59		Pneumonia	1
10	Eliza		30	F	B	S	M*	So Carolina	March /60	House Servant	Consumption	120
11	Thomas W	Goode	58	M		F	W	Georgia	Nov 59	Atty at law	Dropsy of the heart	180
12	Infant		1/12	F		F		Georgia	May, 60		Hooping Cough	10
13	Infant		1 day	M	B	S		Georgia	May, 60		Not known	1
14	Wm	Bryan	74	M		F	M	N Carolina	March	Farmer	Appoplexy	Sudden
15	Clara	Bethel	3	F		F		Georgia	Decr		Croup	13
16	E J	Barnes	28	F		F	M	Georgia	Decr	housekeeper	Consumption	90
17	Wm A	Barnes	1	M		F		Georgia	Novr		Cough	90
18	Wm M	Harrell	38	M		F		Georgia	Decr	Farm hand	Running Ulcer	330
19	Thos G	Rose	68	M		F	M	Georgia	January	Farmer	Chronic	75
20	Hannah		2	F	B	S		Georgia	Sept		Fits	112
21	Benjamin		7	M	B	S		Georgia	April		Pneumonia	13
22	E C	Tlice[?]	5/12	F		F		Georgia	Sept		Pneumonia	10
23	William		3	M	B	S		Georgia	June		Not known	1
24	Alford		10/12	M	B	S		Georgia	June		Dysentery	10
25	Charity		1	F	B	S		Georgia	July		Dysentery	12
26	Caroline		1	F	B	S		Georgia	July		affection of Brain	14
27	L F	Sherman	18	F		F		Georgia	Feby		Dysentery	18
28	name not	known	2	F	B	S		Georgia	June		not known	not known
29	Julia		10/12	F	M	S		Georgia	Nov		Congestion of Brain	4
30	Infant		1/12	F	B	S		Georgia	Sept		overlaid	Sudden
31	W W	Cook	56	M		F		N Carolina	Jany	Lunatic	Rupture	125
32	Walter		1	M	M	S		Georgia	May		Pneumonia	12
33	Mark		47	M	B	S		Georgia	Nov	Farm hand	Pneumonia	25
34	Ann		3	F	B	S		Alabama	Nov		Burnt	1
35	E A W	Barron	10/12	F		F		Georgia	Jany		Inflammation of Brain	4
36	Elizabeth	Mauldin	53	F		F	M	Georgia	June	Housewife	Dropsy	90
37	Francis	Mauldin	55	M		F	W	Georgia	Sept	Farmer	Apoplexy	4
38	Sam		60	M	B	S		Africa	Jany	Farm hand	Falling of a Tree	22
39	Eliza		2	F	B	S		Georgia	Oct		Worms	3
40	Thos W	Riviere	48	M		F	M	Georgia	Sept	Farmer	Congestion of Bowels	35
41	Hannibal		2	M	B	S		Georgia	Jany		not known	5
42
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44	J W	Britt	35	M			M	So Carolina	Oct	overseer	Disease of Liver	40
45	Charlotte	Smith	1	F				Georgia	August		Worms	3
46	Louisa	Smith	2/12	F				Georgia	Decr		Not known	1
47	E S	Ward	1 [or 7]	F				Georgia	Feby		Quinzy	3
48	Sarah		3	F	M	S		Georgia	July		Consumption	62
49	Julia		8/12	F	M	S		Georgia	Sept		Consumption	90
50	Sally		6/12	F	M	S		Georgia	Sept		not known	1
51	M A E	Smith	6/12	F				Georgia	Jany		not known	1
52	Priscilla		63	F	B	S		Virginia	April		Dropsy	112
53	Jane		2	F	B	S		Georgia	June		Worms	13
54	Matilda		20	F	B	S		Georgia	Decr		Puerperal Fever	10
55	Mary		18	F	B	S		Georgia	Feby		Pneumonia	5
56	Reuben	Holloway	31	M		M		Georgia	Nov	Farmer	Consumption	200
57	Charlotte		35	F	B	S		N Carolina	May	Farm hand	Pneumonia	10
58	Cynthia A	Neely	13	F				Georgia	March	Serving	Pneumonia	2
59	A G	Taylor	3	M				Georgia	April		Burned	1
60	Napoleon	Alford	1	M				Georgia	May		Diarrhea	75
61	J A	Alford	2	F				Georgia	July		Teething	7
62	Sarah	Evans	1	F				Alabama	Sept		Diarrhea	60
63	Anderson		5/12	M	B	S		Georgia	March		overlaid	instant
64	Rebecca		52	F	M	S		N Carolina	April		Poison	90
65	E A	Gilbert	2	F	M	S		Georgia	Nov		Croup	6
66	James J	Rawls	8	M				Georgia	Aug		Putrid sore throat	6
67	Infant	Rawls	3/hours	F				Georgia	May		not known	sudden
68	Mary	Coe	25	F				Georgia	Feby	Housekeeper	Childbed	1
69	Harriet		6/12	F	B	S		Georgia	Nov		Croup	1
70	Edmund		2	M	B	S		Georgia	Nov		Croup	1
71	Ellen		1/12	F	M	S		Georgia	Feby		Fits	4
72	Buck		2	M	B	S		Georgia	Sept		affection of Brain	9
73	Elizabeth		4	F	B	S		Georgia	Oct		Pneumonia	12
74	Susan		1	F	B	S		Georgia	Oct		Pneumonia	12
75	Elizabeth A	Owen	20	F				Georgia	Dec	Serving	Suicide by Laudanum	5 hours
76	Rebecca		1	F	B	S		Georgia	March		Burned	60
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78	Joseph	Waller	73	M			W	Delaware	April	Farmer	Stricture of Bladder	8
79	E J	Cox	1/12	F				Alabama	Nov		Hives	6
80	Martha A	Cochran	20	F			M	Georgia	March	Housekeeper	Typhoid Fever	7
81	Susan		2	F	M	S		Georgia	June		Smothered	instant
82	Infant child		1/12	F	M	S		Georgia	May		not known	10
83	Wesley		6/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Nov		Convulsions	18
84	George		52	M	B	S		Maryland	Dec	Farm hand	Not known	Instant
85	Joseph		8/12	M	M	S		Georgia	May		Eruption	20
86	Nancy	Powell	69	F			W	S Carolina	June	Farmer	Dropsy	150
87	J G	Whatley	28	M			M	Georgia	March	Physician	Consumption	60
88	Sarah		35	F	B	S		Alabama	April	Farm hand	Not known	30
89	Cyrus		8/12	M	B	S		Georgia	May		Dysentery	3
90	F C	Stafford	11	F				Georgia	Jany		Inflammation Brain	4
91	H	Ford	2/12[?]	M				Georgia	May		Cholera Infantum	4
92	Selina		20	F	M	S		Georgia	Dec		Burned	1
93	Infant		1/12	F	M	S		Georgia	Dec		Not known	6
94	Rinda		10/12	F	B	S		Georgia	March		Not known	instant
95	Mary M C	Rose	8	F				Georgia	March		affection of the heart	30
96	Jane		3	F	B	S		Georgia	Jany		Dropsy in the head	100
97	----------	Lacy	1/12	M				Georgia	April		Not known	4
98	J McD.	Joiner	6	F				Georgia	Oct		Croup	6
99	H J	Perdue	4	M				Georgia	Jany		Inflamation Brain	3
100	Brown		1	M	B	S		Georgia	Jany		Pneumonia	5
101	Frances	Mauk	74	F				N Carolina	Aug	Housekeeper	Congestive chill	3
102	Henry		6/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Nov		Inflam Bowels	10
103	George		6/12	M	B	S		Georgia	June		Inflam Bowels	10
104	Frank		9/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Feby		Burned	12
105	J L	Stephens	2	F	W	F		Georgia	Sept		scarlet Fever	6
106	W P	Stephens	5	F	W	F		Georgia	Sept		scarlet Fever	12
107	Susan		55	F	B	S		Georgia	April		cancer	450
108	Benjamin		8/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Nov		Bold[?] Hives	8
109	Victoria		1/12	F	B	S		Georgia	May		Croup	1
110	Samuel		7/12	M	B	S		Georgia	Dec		Burned	1
111	E.	Jackson	42	F			M	Georgia	Jany	Housekeeping	Consumption	150
112	Smart		100	M	B	S		Africa	March	Farm hand	old age	350
113	Clary		4/12	F	B	S		Georgia	March		overlaid	instant
114	Thornton		26	M	B	S		Georgia	June	Farm hand	Dysenterry	3
115	Henry		3	M	B	S		Georgia	July		Dysenterry	10
116	Augustus		1	M	M	S		Georgia	July		Dysenterry	18
117	Lewis		1	M	B	S		Georgia	July		Dysenterry	18
118	Eliza		5	F	M	S		Georgia	July		Bloody flux	6
119	Wm W	Parks	3/12	M				Georgia	June		cholera Infantum	5
120	Isaac		60	M	B	S		Georgia	Sept	Farmhand	Dyspepsia	12
121	Caroline		30	F	B	S		Georgia	August	Farmhand	Gastritis	96
122
123	Wm T	Hardage	12	M				Georgia	July		Dysenterry	10
124	----------	Turner	1/12	M				Georgia	July		Hives	30
125	Jas W	Christie	1	M				Georgia	March		Teething	20
126	Rachael		1/12	F	B	S		Georgia	March		Disease of the heart	30
127	Patsey		80	F	B	S		Not known	June	Farm hand	old age	300
128	Ephraim	Ivy	57	M			M	Georgia	Sept	Farmer	Dispepsia	30
129	----------	Pound	1/hour	F				Georgia	Jany		Not known	instant
130	E. J	Blakenship	3	F				Georgia	Oct		Croup	10
131	John	Mote	4/12	M				Georgia	Jany		Bold[?] hives	1
132	Fanny		4/12	F	B	S		Georgia	Sept		Not known	4
133	M A	Mote	1/day	F				Georgia	Aug		Not known	instant
134	Claiborn		45	M	B	S		Virginia	Jany	Farm hand	Typhoid Fever	10
135	Caesar		14	M	B	F		Georgia	Feby	Farm hand	Typhoid Fever	9
136	Henry C	Hudgins	6	M				Georgia	Feby		Typhoid Fever	21
137	J F	Cambell	10/12	M				Georgia	April		Brain Fever	10
138	Martha J	Campbell	1	F				Georgia	July		Not known	30
139	M C J	Stephens	2/12	F				Georgia	Nov		Bold[?] hives	1
140	Griffin		34	M	B	S		N Carolina	Sept	Farm hand	Typhoid Fever	12
141	S C	Atwater	6/12	F				Georgia	May		Cholera Infantum	3
142	G P	Harp	7/12	M				Georgia	Sept		Congestion of Brain	6
143	Ephraim		7/12	M	M	S		Georgia	April		Disease of Lungs	4
144	Elizabeth J	Abercrombie	34	F		M		Georgia	April	Housekeeping	Consumption	60
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148	Sam		2	M	B	S		Georgia	Jany		Asthma	7
149	Lannette[?]		6/12	F	M	S		Georgia	March		Croup	5
150	Caesar		15	M	B	S		Georgia	Jany	Farm hand	Bilious Fever	6
151	[illegible]	Bradley	1/12	F				Georgia	Aug			instant
152	Jane		25	F	B	S		Georgia	June	Farm hand	Pocks[?]	60
153	Achsah M	Andrews	36	F			M	Georgia	July	Housekeeping	Consumption	60
154	Emily		5/12	F	B	S		Georgia	Jany		Smothered	Sudden
155	Jane		3	F	B	S		Georgia	May		Pneumonia	30
156	Judy		5/12	F	B	S		Georgia	Sept		Pneumonia	6
157	Infant		1/12	M	B	S		Georgia	June		Smothered	Sudden

We are very grateful to David Paterson for his transcribing this information and providing it for the Upson County page.

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