1885 Wakulla County Mortality Schedule


Schedule 5 -Persons who died in the year ending May 31, 1885 in county of Wakulla

state of Florida, enumerated by me, H. H. Walker Enumerator.



Name                House#  Age    Sex   Col   Mar   Where born            Month    Occupation    Disease                  Yrs    Doctor

                                             Stat       1     2     3     Death                                           Res

                                                     

                                                                                                                                  

Fitzgerald, Nancy           75     F     W     W       Ire    Ire    Ire   Dec                    Old age                  14     None

Hall, Cilia                 58     F     B     W       VA    VA    VA      Oct                    Effects of burn          30     None

Raker, Mary J.              28     F     W     M       GA    GA    GA      May                    Child birth              25     J.E. Laird

Heathers, H.C.              2      F     B             FL    FL    FL      Jul                                                    

Stephens, Eliza     77      37     F     W     M       AL    GA    GA      Jan                                             16     None

Dugger, Merriam     78      75     F     W     W       NC    NC    NC      Feb                    General debility         36     J.E. Laird

Green, T.F.         99      63     M     W     M       SC    SC    SC      Dec      Farmer        Apoplexy                 54     J.E. Laird

Green, B.C.         99      6      M     W             FL    SC    SC      Sep                    Enlargement of  glands          J.E. Laird

Gray, Martha        120     5/30   F     W             FL    GA    GA      Jun                                                    

Cox, Ada C.         145     5      F     W             FL    ??    FL      Jul                    Inflamation Bowels              Dr. Gullett

Johnson, Maria      156     2/12   F     B             FL           FL     Oct                                                    

Laird, B.F.         184     62     M     W     M       GA                  Nov      Farm work     Pneumonia                19     None

Hargrett, Fannie    166     75     F     B             NC    NC    NC      Apr                                                    None

Jackson, Hardy      216     57     M     B                                 Oct      Farm work                                     None

Ferrell             231     2/12   M     W             FL    GA    FL      Mar                                                    J.E. Laird

Mercer, Rosanna     244     36     F     B     M       FL                  Nov      Farm work                              35     None

Butler, Erline      264     53     F     W     M       GA    GA    GA      Apr                                                    J.E. Laird

Anderson, Mary E.   289     27     F     W     S       FL    SC    GA      Jan                    Consumption                     Dr. Gullett & J.E. Laird

Powell, M.J.        290     29     F     W     M       FL    SC    SC      Apr                    Inflamation Womb                J.E. Laird

Pigott, Mattie      303     11     F     W                                 Mar                    Heart disease                   J.E. Laird

Reynolds, Nancy     305     38     F     W     W       SC    SC     SC     Apr                    Rheumatism                      J.E. Laird

Crum, Zilphia       304     17     F     W     M       GA    VA    GA      Dec                    Dropsy                          J.E. Laird

Hill, (no name)     319     8/30   F     B             FL    GA    AL      Jul                                                    None

Miller, Emmaline    328     1      F     B             FL    FL    FL      Mar                                                    None

Benton, Mary J.     346     40     F     W     M       SC    SC    SC      Mar                                                    None

Oliver, M.J.        371     35     F     W     M       FL    SC    FL      Nov                    Pneumonia                       Dr. Moore

Leavy, Jno. L.      382     10     M     W             FL    FL    FL      Mar                    Typhoid feaver                  Dr. Leonard

Gilchrist, L.R.             45     M     W     M       FL    SC    SC      Nov      Farmer                                        J.E. Laird

Hughes, Alice C.    2       1      F     W             FL    AL    FL      Jul                    Bilious fever            1      

Ham, David          3       1      M     W             FL    FL    FL      Jul                    Bilious fever            1      J.E. Laird

McWilliams, J.R.    4       80     M     W     M       SC    SC    SC      Nov      Farmer        Decsef ?                        

Revell, Mary        5       36     F     W     M       FL                  Aug                    Dropsy                          

Roddenbery, Jane    6       20     F     W     S       FL    NC    NC      Aug                    Dropsy                          

Ham, David          7       70     M     W     M       GA    GA    GA      May      Ferryman      Apoplexy                        

Anderson, J.R.              28     M     W     M       FL    GA    GA      Jun      Farmer        Consumption                     

Vickers, Mayfisc ?          3/12   M     W             FL    FL    FL      Jul                    Bilious fever                   








Remarks: The water is generally limestone. The soil is light & sandy and in many places 

filled or littered with limerock. Long leaf yellow pine is the general growth 

only with in hammocks where the white oak & hickory and the magnolia bay are very 

plentiful and swamps abound in the spontaneous growth of cabbage palmeto. Lime & murl 

are the natural fertilizers in the county.



NOTES:

Slaves were listed only by first name. They have been shown 

seperately for the purpose of sorting by name.



Age is shown in one of three ways, as years, days/30, or months/12



1 name

2 age

3 sex

4 color, white, black, mulato

5 Free / slave

6 married, widowed

7 place of birth (1 this person, 2 person's father, 3 person's mothers)

8 month in which person died

9 occupation

10 cause of death

11 Days ill, c= continous ???

	Created Dec 1997
	Revised 20 Apr 2012	
	Ron Thompson