1870 Mortality Schedule
Note:  I have provided a list below of some of the olden diseases labeled by various doctors.


Name Age/Sex/Race Married Born Month Died Cause of Death
Elder. F  M            Ga. August Stillborn
Henderson, Moses 26 M  B Ga. July Spinal Meningitis
South, Mary C. 3 F M Ga. Oct. Cynchi Irusha tic
Turner, Martha A. 38 F M X Sc March Vaolia ?
Turner, Harriett 16 F M Ga. March Vaolia ?
Turner, Mary 10/12 F M Ga. March Vaolia ?
Turner, Tabitha 69 F M X Sc March Vaolia ?
Brown, Nancy 30 F  B X Va. Oct. Chronic Hepatitis
Glass. Ellen 13 F M Ga. August Intermittent Fever
Wright, Fannie 65  F B X Va. Sept. Congestion/Chill
Coleman, Thomas 5 M  B Ga. May Spinal Meningitis
Warren, Rosa E. 56 F B Widow NC Jan. Chronic Hepatitis
Tolley. Matilda 13 F B Ga. March Spinal Meningitis
Camp, Mary A. 19 F W Ga. March Spinal Meningitis
Lanksley, Luch 66 F W Widow Ga. July Chronic Hepatitis
Duke, Charity L. 45 FW Ga. Jan. Chronic Hepatitis
Monday, Julia A. 13 F W Ga. March Spinal Meningitis
Furgason. Lena 8/12 F B Ga. August Spinal Meningitis
Nash. Susan Ella 4/12  F W SC August Colo Rectitus?
Simpson. Martha 11 F W Ga. August Intermittent Fever
Sewell. Thomas NI B X Ga. Sept. Congestion/Chill
Hendon. Cinthia E. 15 F W Ga. March Spinal Meningitis
Allen. Colemen 19 NI W Ga. April Typhoid Fever
Brown. John 24 M B Ga. July Killed by Lightning
Allen, Elizabeth C. 64 F W Widow Ga. Feb. Paralysis
Austin. Anonette 1 F W Ga. Nov. Colo Rectitus?
Austin. Pleasant I M W Ga. Jul. Colo Rectitus?
Graves. Robert I M W Ga. Dec. Dentition
Berry, Seaborn 20 M W Ga March Spinal Meningitis
McPeak, William 77 M W X Va. Dec. Pneumonia
Buchannon. Cyras 11  M W Ga. March Rubella
Burk. Terrell 40 M W X Miaa. May Brights (liver ailment)
Burk, Abner 43 M W X Ga. Dec. Chronic Hepatitis
Toney. Lackey Ann 2/12 F W Ga. April Suddenly
Price, Sarah 2 F W Ga. Nov. Burned to death
Rounder, Thomas 36 M W X Ga Jan. Typhoid I ever
Moses, William 1/12 M W Ala. August Cynanth Trchily?
Toland. Ubony 34 F B X Ga. June Mel-Caremom?
Hopson. Malinda 31 F  B X Ga. Jan. Typhoid Fever
Cook. Thomas G. 25 M W Ala Oct. Congestion/Chill
Toland, William A. 12 M W Ga. Dec. Scarlet Fever
Yancy. Lucinda 8 F W Ga. Oct. Billious Fever
Dodson, Lula 1 F W Ga. Jan. Teething and Diah.
Puckett, Marcha A. 1 F B Ga. Apr. Worming Fever
Morris, Robert 14 M B Ga. March Phthima Pulmonda?
Morris, Francis 7 M B Ga. May Spinal Meningitis
Allen. Andrew J. 6/12 M B Ga. May Diptheria
Higgins, Victoria 7/12 F B Ga. Jan. Diptheria
Crow, Sarah E. 5 F W Ga. Sept. Typhoid Fever
Pope. Emily 50 F W X Ga. Apr. Entirilus?
Wright, Mary Sr. 35 F W X Ala Oct. Gastritis
Wright Mary Jr. 2/12 F W -- Nov. Cyancha Imactuous?
McDonald, John L. 28 M W X Ga. April Pulnionids Phitrisis
Bacon, James 27 M W X Ga. Jan. Pulmonids Phitrisis
Hutcheson, Kizer 34 F W Widow Ga. Oct. Typhoid Fever
Osborn, Henry 20 M W X Ga. Oct. PulmonidsPhitrisis
Betts, Sarah. 41 F W Ga. March Pubmonids Phitrisis
Betts. Perry C 17 M W Ga. March Spinal Meningitis
Johnson, Mary 10 F W Ga. March Spinal Meningitis

(The following are from the City of Jonesboro)

Young, Julet
38 F W X Tenn. April Typhoid Fever
Merritt, Osca
12 M W Ga. May Spinal Meningitis
Merritt, Albert
9 M Ga. May Spinal Meningitis
McMullan, William S.
6 M Ga.
Sept. Typhoid Fever
Lyons, William A.
11 M X Ga. March Spinal Meningitis


Note:  Census Taker:  Wm. C. Leak
This listing provided by D. H. Deci (2002) and used with permission from:
Ancestor's Unlimited, Inc.


Some of the diseases labeled by doctor's in the "olden times"
 

      • Acute Mania - severe insanity
      • Addison's Disease - a destructive disease marked by weakness, loss of weight, low blood pressure, gastrointestinal disturbances, and brownish pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes.
      • Aphonia - laryngitis
      • Apoplexy - stroke
      • Ague - used to define the recurring fever & chills of malarial infection
      • Biliousness - jaundice or other symptoms associated with liver disease
      • Black Jaundice (Wiel's Disease) - Black jaundice is a common term for Wiel's Disease. It is quite common in northeast England near mines, farms and sewage and floats about in water. It is caused by a micro-organism and thus is a bacterial infection (of the liver) and not a virus, as in hepatitis. It is carried by rats and secreted in their urine. It is usually not fatal, in present time, to humans. It is, however, rapidly fatal to dogs and cats, who can eventually gain a resistance, but either way can pass it on.
      • Bright's Disease - Bright's Disease is a catch-all for kidney diseases/disorders
      • Camp Fever - typhus
      • Canine Madness - hydrophobia
      • Carditis - inflammation of the heart wall
      • Catarrh - inflammation of mucous membrane
      • Chlorosis - iron deficency anemia
      • Chorea (St. Vitus' Dance) - nervous disorder
      • Commotion - Concussion
      • Consumption - tuberculosis
      • Corruption - infection
      • Coryza - a cold
      • Costiveness - constipation
      • Cramp Colic - appendicitis
      • Croup - spasmodic laryngitis esp. of infants, marked by episodes of difficult breathing and hoarse metallic cough
      • Death from "teething" - tooth infections with inflammation and cellulitis were clearly important causes of illness and death before there was adequate dentistry.
      • Domestic Illness - polite way of saying mental breakdown, depression, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, or the after effects of a stroke or any illness that kept a person housebound and probably in need of nursing support.
      • Dropsy - edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease. Dropsy would be called congestive heart failure today. It is an accumulation of fluid around the heart, for a variety of complex reasons, and one treatment is administration of digitalis (foxglove leaves).
      • Dyspepsia - acid indigestion
      • Extravastaed blood - rupture of a blood vessel
      • Falling Sickness - epilepsy
      • Flux of Humour - circulation
      • French Pox - veneral disease
      • Gout - any inflammation, not just in a joint or extremity, caused by the formation of crystals of oxalic acid when it accumulates in the body. It most often occurs in joints where circulation is poor, and can even cause gallstones or kidney stones. Gout is a disease caused by a buildup of urate or uric acid in the body, which crystallizes out in areas without much rapid blood flow and can cause damage when, for example a toe is stubbed.
      • Green Sickness - anemia
      • Hip Gout - osteomylitis
      • Jail Fever - typhus
      • King's Evil (Scrofula) - tubercular infection of the throat lymph glands
      • La Grippe - flu
      • Lues - syphilis.
      • Lues Venera - veneral disease
      • Lumbago - back pain
      • Lung Fever - pneumonia
      • Lung Sickness - tuberculosis
      • Mania - insanity
      • Marasmus - progressive emaciation
      • Membranous Croup - hoarse cough
      • Milk Leg - a painful swelling of the leg beginning at the ankle and ascending, or at the groin and extending down the thigh. It's usual cause is infection after labor.
      • Mortification - infection
      • Neurasthenia - neurotic condition
      • Nostalgia - homesickness
      • Pott's Disease - tuberculosis of the spine with destruction of the bone resulting in curvature of the spine
      • Protein Disease - a once relatively common childhood kidney disease that causes the kidney to leak protien. This is a secondary allergic reaction to certain kinds of strep infections.
      • Putrid Fever - diptheria
      • Quinsy - tonsilitis
      • Remitting Fever - malaria
      • Sanguineous Crust - scab
      • Screws - rheumatism
      • Scrofula - see King's Evil
      • Septicemia - blood poisoning
      • Ship's Fever - typhus
      • Strangery - rupture
      • Summer Complaint - dysentry or baby diarrhea caused by spoiled milk
      • Venesection (Bleeding Venesection) - bleeding