1850 Mortality Schedule
Cherokee Co., NC

Persons who died during the year ending 1st June 1850.

This schedule was enumerated by John Rolen. His handwriting was, at times, difficult to read. Entries marked with ? or * were hard to read or illegible. Mr. Rolen used a small line to indicate that a child was unnamed; here, we indicate that by a series of dashes (---).

Additionally, Mr. Rolen named only the State of birth. To make the schedule more readable online, places of birth are abbreviated herein using the standard two-letter postal code. Everything else was transcribed exactly as Mr. Rolen wrote it, to the best of my ability to make it so.

There are two pages to the mortality schedule. The first page had only three entries. The second page was full. There were no remarks or totals on the bottom of the pages.

The first column denotes the line number of each entry. The remaining columns from left to right are:

1. Name of 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
2. Age
3. Sex [m, f]
4. Color - white, black, or mulatto [w, b, m]
5. Free or Slave [f, s]
6. Married or Widowed [m, w]
7. Place of Birth, naming the State, Territory, or Country
8. The month in which the person died
9. Profession, Occupation or Trade
10. Disease or cause of death
11. Number of days ill

This census was transcribed from microfilm copies. Every effort has been made to insure that the transcription reflects a true and accurate copy of the original. Questions and comments may be directed to the transcriber.