Persons
who died during the year ending 1st June 1850
1850 Mortality Schedule
Culpeper County, Virginia
Persons
who died during the year ending 1st June 1850
Introduction
Every column in the schedule has been transcribed. Every effort has been made to transcribe this schedule as written. There may be some errors, but these will mostly be errors in interpretation of writing as opposed to errors of omission. There are some obvious errors made by the census taker in recording sex, for instance, but they have been transcribed exactly as written.
Names have been alphabetized.
Abbreviations for Columns
NAME - Name of every person who died during the year ending 1st June 1850, whose usual place of abode at the time of his death was in his family (column 1)
AGE - age of person in years unless otherwise indicated (column 2)
S - sex (column 3)
C - color (column 4)
F - free or slave (column 5)
M - married or widowed (column 6)
POB - place of birth (column 7) standard postal abbreviations for the states; IR = Ireland; SL = Scotland
MTH - month is which the person died (column 8)
TRADE - profession, occupation, or trade (column 9)
CAUSE - disease or cause of death; if blank, nothing was entered (column 10)
ILL - number of days ill; if blank, nothing was entered (column 11)