Douglas County Cemeteries
1889 Burial Report, Lawrence
Included below are burials reported in Lawrence's two largest cemeteries, Oak Hill and Maple Grove, for the year 1889. These are not necessarily death dates, only the burial days as reported by the sextons of these two cemeteries:
Jan. 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Jan. 2; McClung, Hannah; white; age not given; pneumonia
Jan. 1; Brocks, Fleet; colored; 4 years; pneumonia
Jan. 2; Russell, Nelia; colored; 17 years; consumption
Jan. 9; Harvey, Lizzie; white; 17 years; consumption
Jan. 19; Anderson, Cecelia; white; 70 years; asthma
Jan. 20; Campbell, Pearl M.; white; 21 years; typhoid fever
Jan. 31; Piatt, Eva G.; white; 13 years; rheumatism of heart
Jan. 30; McCann, James; white; 63 years; cancer of stomach
Jan. 31; Nadelhoffer, Cora; white; 9 years; diphtheria
Maple Grove burials:
Jan. 21; Mercer, Charles; white; 1 year; inflammation of bowels
Jan. 17; Carlisle, Colly; colored; age unknown; unknown
Jan. 20; James, C. C. jr.; colored; 16 months; pneumonia
Feb. 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Feb. 2; Dimery, Martha; colored; 2 years; teething
Feb. 4; Tasker, Henry; white; 41 years; cancer of stomach
Feb. 5; Mott, Amanda; white; 86 years; hernia
Feb. 8; Witham, Nora Alice; white; 27 years; consumption
Feb. 8; Henderson, Charity; colored; 66 years; unknown
Feb. 10; Strode, Anna; colored; 43 years; blood poisoning
Feb. 11; Ellis, Jane; colored; 83 years; old age
Feb. 11; Luman, Anna; white; 19 years; consumption
Feb. 12; Resser/Reeser, Catherine; white; 70 years; paralysis
Feb. 13; Miller, Rev. S. J.; white; 62 years; consumption
Feb. 22; Smith, Orlando R.; white; 8 years; congestion of brain
Feb. 24; Purrington, H. A.; white; 8 months; lung fever
Feb. 25; Gilbert, Roscoe; white; 17 months; whooping cough
Feb. 25; Jaedicke, Frances; white; 2 years; diphtheria
Maple Grove burials:
Feb. 1; Hughes, Eddy; colored; 5 months; typhoid pneumonia
Feb. 2; Ellis, Mattie; colored; 26 years; consumption
Feb. 4; Hastings, H. H.; white; 75 years; kidney disease
Feb. 17; Scheneck, Thomas C. white; 7 months; inflammation of bowels
Feb. 17; Hicks, Ray; white; 2 months; spinal trouble
Feb. 19; Brown, not given; colored; 8 months; pneumonia
March 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Mar. 2; Hogan, Rena; colored; 2 years; consumption
Mar. 3; Staily, Samuel S.; white; 52 years; heart disease
Mar. 6; Duncan, Laura; white; age unknown; heart disease
Mar. 9; Salsbury, infant; colored; 11 months; lung disease
Mar. 10; Benefield, infant; white; 7 days heart disease
Mar. 12; Waters, Nancy; white; 80 years; old age
Mar. 19; Rumery, Moses; white; 87 years; consumption
Mar. 22; Maine, W. F.; white; 44 years; Bright's disease
Mar. 23; Railson, Charles; white; 50 years; unknown
Mar. 23; Clark, Mary Agnes; white; 27 years; brain disease
Mar. 24; Swearigen, infant; white; 16 days whooping cough
Mar. 24; Turvell, Almira; white; 65 years; pneumonia
Mar. 26; Wolf, Jessie; white; 17 days pneumonia
Mar. 27; Howard, James; colored; 2 months; croup
Mar. 29; Lenhart, Cathie M.; white; 15 years; typhoid fever
Mar. 31; Adams, Nellie; white; 6 months; pneumonia
Maple Grove burials:
Mar. 2; Anderson, Edmond colored; 69 years; lung disease
Mar. 10; Porter, Lucy white; 72 years; dropsy
Mar. 27; Brown, Rola R. white; 8 months; bronchitis
April 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Apr. 4; Gauck, Caroline; white; 42 years; pneumonia
Apr. 4; Stevens, James T.; white; 59 years; abcess of liver
Apr. 6; Willson, Mary A.; white; 16 years; consumption
Apr. 7; Erickson, Carrie; white; 27 years; heart disease
Apr. 9; Doane, Luther H.; white; 20 years; accident
Apr. 11; Chapman, Henry; colored; 49 years; kidney disease
Apr. 12; Henderson, Willie; colored; 2 years; whooping cough
Apr. 12; Everingham, B. (?); white; 2 years; whooping cough
Apr. 13; Thornton, John W.; white; 59 years; heart disease
Apr. 15; Johnson, Thomas B.; white; 44 years; blood poisoning
Apr. 18; Usher, Hon. J. P.; white; 73 years; surgical operation
Apr. 19; Grant, Ellen; colored; 67 years; heart disease
Apr. 20; Clay, Mary; colored; 2 years; scrofula
Apr. 25; White, Warren; colored; 4 years; lung disease
Apr. 26; Reatz, Christopher; white; 61 years; typhoid pneumonia
Apr. 26; Smith, Effie Edna; colored; 3 weeks general debility
Apr. 28; Spear/Speer, Rosa; white; 25 years; consumption
Apr. 29; Huffman, Anna; white; 85 years; consumption
Apr. 30; Wood, Ed; colored; 21 years; murdered
Apr. 30; Potter, Ethel ; white; 44 years; kidney disease
Maple Grove burials:
Apr. 2; Lewis, Lettie; white; 5 months; whooping cough
Apr. 3; Scott, Henry; colored; 23 years; consumption
Apr. 5; Phillips, Abe; colored; 21 years; dropsy of heart
Apr. 7; Adams, Nancy A.; white; 59 (?) years; measles
Apr. 15; Fitchue, Lester; colored; 16 months; lung fever
Apr. 18; Washington, infant; white; 3 weeks measles
Apr. 23; Smith, infant; white; 3 days unknown
Apr. 28; Phillips, Willie; colored; 10 years; consumption
Apr. 29; Robinson, Lydia; colored; 18 months; whooping cough
Apr. 30; Miller, Lydia; white; 84 years; old age
May 1889
Oak Hill burials:
May 4; Higgins, Oceola; white; 1 month; congestion of stomach
May 4; Winnie, James; white; 69 years; paralysis
May 9; Parcels, Caswell R.; white; 7 years; diabetes
May 10; Blodgett, Jessie; white; 32 years; consumption
May 11; Whitehead, infant; white; 2 days heart disease
May 13; Ruby, Bertha; white; 13 months; measles
May 17; Zook, Josephine; white; age unknown; typhoid pneumonia
May 21; Presby, Mary E.; white; age unknown; unknown
May 22; Russell, Alonzo; white; 72 years; heart disease
May 24; Cutler, Calvin H.; white; 61 years; consumption
May 27; Skinner, John; white; 53 years; softening of brain
May 27; Lane, Anna J.; white; 37 years; typhoid malaria
May 27; Middleton, Nannie; white; 27 years; consumption
May 30; Quick, Harlow; white; 41 years; heart disease
May 30; Whitcomb, Earnest; white; 2 months; pneumonia
May 31; Watkins, Ann; white; 76 years; old age
Maple Grove burials:
May 3; Markle, Stella; white; 3 years; congestion of bowels
May 3; Perry, Austin; colored; 100 years; old age
May 3; Fitchue, Annie; colored; 22 years; consumption
May 5; Warren, Marry J.; white; 63 years; inflammation of lungs
May 11; Allen, Caroline; colored; 6 months; whooping cough
May 13; Anderson, Lena; colored; 3 years; measles
May ? Ashley, Anderson; white; 2 months; whooping cough
June 1889
Oak Hill burials:
June 4; Davis, David; white; 55 years;
June 8; Smith, Mary Ann; white; 88 years;
June 10; Snow, Harold H.; white; 9 months;
June 17; Bellman, infant; colored; age unknown;
June 17; Gleed, Cornelia A.; white; 61 years;
June 27; Epley, James; white; 73 years;
June 30; Willoughby, Malinda; colored; 2 years;
Maple Grove burials:
June 5; Huntinges, infant; white; age unknown; unknown
June 9; Willson, Elmer; colored; 1 month; bronchitis
June 12; King, infant; white; none; stillborn
July 1889
Oak Hill burials:
July 5; Tyner, E. C.; colored; 89 years; old age
July 11; Griffith, Maggie C.; white; 30 years; consumption
July 14; Lee, Henry; colored; 48 years; cancer of stomach
July 14; Lindner, J. G.; white; age unknown; heart disease
July 16; Wood, Isaac W.; white; 53 years; cholera morbus
July 26; Harris, Silas; colored; 60 years; unknown
July 26; Bedale, William; white; 67 years; consumption of bowels
July 26; Bollard, Ella Mary; white; age unknown; childbirth
July 31; Russell, Bud; colored; 14 years; consumption
Maple Grove burials:
July 4; Hankinson, Minnie C.; white; 14 months; whooping cough
July 8; Lewis, Charles; colored; 5 months; unknown
July 11; Bean, Mary Jessie; colored; 1 month; unknown
July 11; Todd, infant of A.; white; 5 days unknown
July 27; Brown, Lucy; white; 19 years; consumption
August 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Aug. 5; Hutchings, John; white; 72 years; consumption
Aug. 12; Bartholow, Mary J.; white; 72 years; dysentery
Aug. 6; Toyne/Teyne, Oden; white; 1 year; killed on railroad
Aug. 12; Lane, Mary; white; 75 years; paralysis of heart
Aug. 15; Wright, Wilburn; colored; 35 years; consumption
Aug. 18; Van Dusen, Clifton; white; 1 month; congestion of brain
Aug. 24; Bartholow, Francis C.; white; 1 year; whooping cough
Aug. 20; Sauer, infant of F.; white; none; stillborn
Aug. 25; Monroe, W. E.; white; 54 years; rheumatic fever
Maple Grove burials:
Aug. 4; Nelson, Curtis; colored; 2 weeks spinal disease
Aug. 20; Houston, Eliza; white; 76 years; old age
Aug. 21; Crowder, not given; colored; 18 months; general debility
Aug. 31; Merritt, Henry; white; 87 years; old age
Aug. 31; Crowder, not given; colored; age unknown; unknown
September 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Sept. 3; Spencer, infant of J. R.; colored; 3 weeks premature birth
Sept. 8; Cohron, Laura; colored; 31 years; asthma
Sept. 9; Richardson, George M.; white; 1 year; cholera infantum
Sept. 18; Hunter, Hiram; colored; 60 years; dropsy
Sept. 19; Esterle, John; white; age unknown; inflammation of brain
Sept. 20; Harvey, Clara; white; 1 month; malaria
Sept. 25; Holman, Lida; white; 1 month; spasms
Sept. 28; Chapman, Tella/Telia; white; 21 years; consumption
Sept. 28; Bowers, Bessie; white; 13 months; congestion of brain
Sept. 28; Wilder, John H.; white; 60 years; jaundice
Sept. 28; Sercey/Searcy, Margaret; colored; 60 years; dropsy
Maple Grove burials:
Sept. 6; Twigg, Priscilla; colored; 65 years; dropsy
Sept. 6; Lacy, Burt; colored; 14 years; inflammation of bowels
Sept. 14; Drake, Josephine E.; colored; age unknown; malarial fever
Sept. 16; Brown, Nettie; white; 17 years; typhoid pneumonia
October 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Oct. 1; Christian, infant of S.; white; none; stillborn
Oct. 2; James, Synthia; colored; 89 years; old age
Oct. 5; Ahrens, Georgiana; white; 40 years; typhoid fever
Oct. 6; Sims, Courtney; colored; 22 years; typhoid fever
Oct. 8; Labarrier, Paul E.; white; 40 years; pneumonia
Oct. 10; Smith, Mary E.; white; age unknown; consumption
Oct. 13; Bacon, L. S.; white; 74 years; paralysis of brain
Oct. 15; Graham, Jessie M.; white; 25 years; consumption
Oct. 18; Crozier, William; white; 62 years; heart disease
Oct. 24; Babcock, C. W.; white; 59 years; gall stone, bladder
Oct. 23; Clark, infant of H.; colored; 5 days affected brain
Oct. 23; Taylor, John; colored; 61 years; sunstroke
Oct. 24; Johnson, Angeline; colored; 47 years; tumor
Oct. 25; Smith, Eliza J.; white; 56 years; dropsy
Oct. 26; Messer, Fannie; white; 85 years; old age
Oct. 29; Wall, infant of A.; white; none; stillborn
Maple Grove burials:
Oct. 3; Hicks, Maggie; white; 4 weeks malarial fever
Oct. 12; Williams, Florence; colored; 1 year; malarial fever
Oct. 18; Benedict, A.; white; 85 years; accident
Oct. 20; Burgan, Frank; white; 10 years; dropsy of heart
Oct. 31; Benedict, Roxanna; white; 85 years; old age
November 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Nov. 4; Raymond, Rosa V.; white; age unknown; unknown
Nov. 6; Barteldes, Theo; white; 34 years; dropsy
Nov. 13; Faxon, William T.; white; 66 years; suicide
Nov. 20; Arnold, Ann B.; white; 76 years; cancer of stomach
Nov. 23; Marvin, E. G.; colored; 22 years; consumption
Nov. 27; Fuller, Eliza; white; 74 years; unknown
Nov. 29; Sutorious, Paul; white; 63 years; heart disease
Nov. 30; Mitchell, Elijah; colored; 19 years; accident on railroad
Nov. 30; Fisher, Elizabeth; white; 78 years; pneumonia
Maple Grove burials:
Nov. 17; Gray, Maria; colored; 14 years; consumption
Nov. 20; Robinson, William; white; age unknown; dropsy
Nov. 28; McKissick, William; colored; 22 years; accident on railroad
Nov. 30; Luna, Elizabeth; colored; 57 years; paralysis
December 1889
Oak Hill burials:
Dec. 2; Hoene, Henry; white; 56 age unknown; paralysis
Dec. 2; Barnes, George H.; white; 5 years; membranous croup
Dec. 19; Carter, Allen; colored; 44 years; cancer
Dec. 19; Carter, Daniel; colored; 30 years; pneumonia
Dec. 19; Holloway, infant of J.; colored; age unknown; unknown
Dec. 22; Law, Cora; colored; 20 years; consumption
Dec. 26; Smith, R. H.; colored; 35 years; bronchitis
Dec. 28; Johnson, Minerva; white; 56 years; in'sucp'n of bowels*
Maple Grove burials:
Dec. 3; Bibb, Freddie; colored; 3 years; pneumonia
Dec. 31; Carr, Hardin; colored; 31 years; blood poisoning
*as written
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