PART 1
REGISTER OF DEATHS
HOWARD COUNTY, MISSOURI
1883-1892
HOWARD COUNTY
FAYETTE, MISSOURI
Copied from original records by: Karen V. Boggs
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Karen Boggs
REGISTER OF DEATHS, HOWARD COUNTY MISSOURI 1883-1892
Legend
1. sc = sex and color
2. ao = age and occupation
3. dt = date and time of death
4. ms = marital status
5. nw = nationality, where born
6. yr = years resident of this state
7. pd = place of death
8. cd = cause of death
9. cdd = complication, duration of complication, duration of disease
10. pdb = place and date of burial
11. up = name of undertaker and place of business
12. rp = name and residence of physician returning certificate
WEAVER, N.B. sc: white male; ao: 33y 1m - Blacksmith; dt: 15 Nov 1883, 1 p.m.; ms: married; pd: Glasgow; cd: Typhoid fever with meningitis and cerebral effusion; cdd: meningitis with cerebral effusion, from beginning of attack 4 days; pdb: Glasgow, MO 17 Nov. 1883; up: Wengler & Sons, Glasgow; rp: J.M. Norris, Glasgow, MO
SHORT, Jasper sc: white, male; ao: 33y 6m 29d - Miller; dt: 19 Nov 1883, 11 a.m.; ms: married; nw: Cressent, Illinois; yr: 8 yrs; pd: Glasgow, cd: consumption; cdd: none, 12 months; pdb: Glasgow, MO 24 Nov. 1883; up: Wengler & Sons, Glasgow; rp: J.M. Norris, Glasgow MO
BASKETT, Lillie sc: female, black; ao: 18 or 19 - house servant; dt: 28 Oct 1883, 5 a.m.; ms: single; nw: African, Howard County; yr: 18/19 yr; pd: on William Shields farm; cd: consumption; cdd: sup. catimend, 12 weeks, 6 weeks; pbd:don't know; up: don't know; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, MO
CONDRON, Lizzie sc: female, white; ao: 38y 9m; dt: 4 Nov. 1883, 5 p.m.; ms: married; nw: Missouri; pd: Howard County; cd: Measels and Pneumonia; cdd: pneumonia, from the first about 7 days; pdb: Fayette Cemetery, 5 Nov. 1883; up: Schmirk & Bowen, Fayette, MO; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette MO
MILLER, Will sc: male, black; ao: 18 - Laborer; dt: 23 Nov. 1883, 5 p.m.; ms: single; nw: Missouri, Born near Fayette; cd: by the falling of a wall of brick crushing him instantly in Fayette, MO; pdb: Fayette, 24 Nov. 1883; up: Schmirk & Bowen, Fayette, Mo; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, Mo.
DAVIS, J.T. sc: male, white; ao: 52 - carpenter; 3 Nov. 1883, 2 a.m.; ms: married; nw: Virginia; yr: about 24 yrs; cd: Suicide by taking an ounce of Loudanum, low spirited; cdd:loss of property and health, Fayette, Mo.; pdb: Fayette, 4 Nov, 1883; up: Norris & Kraus, Fayette, Mo.; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, MO.
WILSON, Maude sc: female, white; ao: 8y 2m; 27 Nov. 1883, 4 a.m.; ms: single; nw: Missouri, Howard County; about 4 miles from Fayette at her father's residence; cd: Diptheria; cdd: blood poisoning, severity disease about 14 days; pdb: Fayette Cemetery, 28 Nov. 1883; up: Norris & Kraus, Fayette, Mo; rp: J.G. Haller, Harrisburg, MO.
ROBERTSON, Sallie - Rebecca sc: female; dt: 1 Dec. 1883, 3 a.m.; nw: American Bonne Femme Township; Bonne Femme Township; cd: still born, the mother was attended by Mrs. M.E. Porter & S. Asbury; pdb: Mt. Pleasant Howard County, MO; up: Hawkins and Bentley; rp: J.G. Haller, Harrisburg, MO.
BARTEE, Caroline sc: female, white; ao: 5y 5m 6d; dt: 21 Nov. 1883, 11 a.m.; ms: single; nw: Howard County, MO; pd: Near Burton, MO; cd: membraneous cough; cdd: 36 hours; pdb: Log Chapel Graveyard; rp: J.B. Scott, Burton, MO.
MCDANIEL, John - William sc: male, white; ao: 5y 5m; dt: 5 Dec. 1883, 4 a.m.; nw: American, Missouri; yr: always; pd: Glasgow, MO, cd: Typhoid Fever; cdd: 17 days; pdb: Glasgow, Mo 6 Dec, 1883; up: Wm. Wrengler; rp: J.M. Morris, Glasgow, MO
BIBB, Richard sc: male, chocolate; ao: 61 y - Laborer; dt: 13 Dec. 1883, 2 a.m.; ms: married; bwL American, Virginia; yr: 33 yr; pd: Glasgow, MO cd: Tubercolosis of lungs comflicated with long continuence alcoholism; cdd: 14 weeks; pdb: Glasgow, Mo 15 Dec. 1883; up: Wm. Wrengler and Sons, Glasgow, MO; rp: M.B. Collins, Glasgow, MO.
TODD, Mary May sc: female; ao: 8m; dt: 29 Dec. 1883, 3 p.m.; ms: single; nw: Franklin Township; yr: life; pd: New Franklin, Mo.; cd: conjection of the brain; cdd: malasia 5 days; pdb: Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery; up: R. Thomson, Boonville; rp: W.D. Jackson, New Franklin, MO.
ST. CLAIR, Bertha sc: female, white; ao: 15 - farmers wife; dt: 22 Nov. 1883, 9 a.m.; ms: married; nw: Boone County, MO; yr: life; pd: 6 miles of Myers Howard County, Mo; cd: blood poison caused by botulism dynamorrhea or rupture of the catamenia; cdd: 6 months; pdb: Rocheport, MO; up: Moore Bentley, Harrisburg, Mo: rp: T.H. Dinwiddie, Myers, MO.
WILLIAMS, Amanda sc: female, black; ao: 78 or 80 - cook; dt: 16 Dec. 1883, 11 a.m.; ms: widow; nw: Howard County, Mo. cd: Bronchitis; cdd: old age, four weeks; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, MO.
STAPLETON, Ellen sc: female, black; ao: 55 - farmers wife; dt: 17 Dec. 1882, 1 p.m.; ms: married; nw: African, Missouri; yr: 55/60 yr; pd: Howard County, MO cd: Disease of the heart; cdd: 4 months; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, MO.
CROSS, Ellen sc: female, black; ao: 10m; dt: 21 Dec. 1883; nw: American Randolph County, MO; pd: Roanoke, Mo; cd: pneumonia; cdd: 6 days; pdb: Roanoke Mo. 22 Dec. 1883; up: J.W. Bagby, Roanoke, MO; rp: W.G. Hanna, Roanoke, MO
TURNER, "Infant" sc: male, black; ao: 6 m; dt: 24 Dec. 1883; ms: single; nw: African, Missouri; cd: Hereditary Syhlitis; pd: Howard County, Mo; cdd: 2 months; up: Norris and Chitwood, Fayette, MO; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, Mo
MOORE, Flora sc: female, black; ao: 30y; dt: 24 Jan. 1884; ms: Married; nw: African, Missouri; pd: Howard County, Mo.; cd: consumption with endemetritis of womb; cdd: endometritis of womb 3 months; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, Mo.
NO NAME sc: female, black; ao: 1y 10m; dt: 10 Jan. 1884; ms: single; nw: American; yr: life; pd: Fayette, Mo; cd: convulsions; cdd: 10 months; pdb: Fayette, Mo; rp: G.F. Smith, Fayette, MO.
O'BRIAN, D.A. sc: male, white; ao: 50y - Physician and Dentist; dt: 10 Jan. 1884, 10 p.m.; ms: single; nw: Virginia; yr: 15 yrs; pd: 10 miles east of Fayette, MO; cd: apoplexy; cdd: 4 days; pdb: Mt. Giliad Church; up: Smirk and Bowers, Fayette, MO; rp: G.F. Smith, Fayette, MO.
MARSHALL, ______ sc: male, white; ao: 3m; dt: 13 July 1884, 9 a.m.; ms: ms: single; nw: American, Howard County, MO; yr: life; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: cholera infantus; cdd: 10 days; pdb: Glasgow, Mo 14 July 1884; rp: J.T. Ware, Boonesboro, MO
WEVER, David E. sc: male, white; ao: 9m 23d; dt: 6 Aug. 1883, 10 p.m.; ms: single; nw: American Boonesboro, MO; yr: life; pd: Boonesboro Mo; cd: Summer Diarrhea; pdb: Boonesboro, MO; 7 Aug. 1883; up: Thompson, Boonville, MO; rp: J.T. Ware, Boonesboro, MO
CAMPBELL, Rachel sc: female, white; ao: 28y - housekeeper; dt: 27 Oct. 1883; ms: married; nw: American, Howard County, MO; yr: life; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: Yellow atrophy liver; cdd: 3 weeks; pdb: Boonesboro, Mo 28 Oct. 1883; rp: J.T. Wood, Boonesboro, MO
ASBURY, Mrs. Susan sc: female, white; ao: 30y; dt: 22 Jan. 1884, 9 a.m.; ms: married; nw: American, Howard County, Mo; yr: life; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: heart clot from syncope; cdd: 15 minutes; pdb: Rock Springs; 23 Jan. 1884; rp: J.C. Heberling, Boonesboro, MO
ROTTGEN, Emily sc: female, black; ao: 65 - Wash woman; dt: 29 Jan. 1884, 4 p.m.; ms: widow; nw: African, Kentucky; pd: Glasgow, Mo; cd: Typhoid Fever; cdd: seven days; pdb: Glasgow, MO 28 Jan. 1884; up: Wm. Wengler, Glasgow, Mo; rp: J.W. Southworth, Glasgow, MO
SEARS, Augustus sc: male, white; ao: 52 - jeweler; dt: 18 Feb. 1884, 2 a.m.; ms: single; nw: American, Howard County, Mo; yr: life; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: pneumonia; cdd: 15 days; pdb: Fayette, Mo; 18 Feb. 1884; up: Norris & Chitwood; Fayette, Mo; rp: U.S. Wright, Fayette, MO;
BAIERS, Bagely sc: female, white; ao: 75y 7m 6d - Housekeeper; dt: 27 Jan. 1884, 4:30 p.m.; ms: married; nw: Germany; Glasgow, Mo; yr: 30 y; cd: segneala of herpes and conplication common to old persons; cdd: inflammation of lungs; 6 to 8 weeks; pdb: Glasgow, Mo 29 Jan. 1884; up: Wm. Wrengler, Glasgow, Mo; rp: J.P. Vaughan, Glasgow, Mo
FULLINGTON, Robert sc: male, white; ao: 75y - farmer; dt: 27 Jan. 1884; ms: widower; yr: 50 yrs; pd: Glasgow, Mo. cd: brights disease maut of nourishment, cdd: stomatitis; dropsical several months; pdb: Glasgow, MO; 28 July 1884; up:Wm Wrengler, Glasgow, Mo: rp: Q.P. Bonham, Glasgow, MO
TAILER, Press sc: female, Mullato; ao: 30y worker; dt: 14 July 1884, 12 a.m.; ms: married; nw: Missouri, Howard County, MO; pd: Fayette Mo; cd: Pneumonia; cdd: Phthesis; several years 7 days; pdb: Fayette, Mo 15 Jan. 1884; up: Norris & Chitwood, Fayette, Mo; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, Mo
MAJORS, Katie sc: female, white; ao: 5m 10d; dt: 29 Jan. 1884, 2 p.m.; ms: single; nw: American, Fayette, Mo; yr: life; pd: Fayette, Mo, cd: bronchitis; cdd: 9 days; pdb: Fayette, MO 30 Jan. 1884; up: Schmirk and Bowers, Fayette, MO; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, Mo.
STAPLETON, Phelan sc: male, black; ao: 25y - Farmhand; dt: 3 Feb 1884, 12 a.m.; ms: single; nw: Missouri Howard County, MO; yr: life; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: stabbed in the bowels with a knife in 3 places; cdd: peretonitis; soon after 48 hour; up: Geo Ashcraft; Norris & Chitwood, Fayette, Mo; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, MO
NO NAME sc: female; ao: 8 hours; dt: 10 Jan 1884, 2 p.m.; nw: American Howard County, MO; yr: 8 hours; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: cerebral conjestion; cdd: from birth; pdb: Howard County Mo; 11 Jan 1884; rp: U.S. Wright, Fayette, MO
ESTILL, Claib - Steward sc: male, white; ao: 23y 6m - farmer; dt: 27 Jan 1884, 9 a.m.; ms: single; nw: Missouri, Howard County, MO; yr: life; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: Typhoid Fever; cdd: few weeks; pdb: Richland Church; up: Wengler, Glasgow, MO; rp: J.T. Wood, Boonesboro, MO
KIVETT, Effie sc: female, white; ao: 2y; dt: 7 Oct 1884, 2 a.m.; ms: single; nw: American, Howard County, MO; yr: life; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: ulceration tonsils; cdd: seperation parotid elad, 2 weeks, 3 weeks; pdb: Boonesboro, MO; rp: J.T. Wood, Boonesboro, MO
BROWN, Wm R. Bell sc: female, white; ao: 34y; dt: 11 Feb. 1884, 2 a.m.; ms: married; nw: American, Kentucky; yr: 25 yr; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: lencocythaemia; cdd: 4 and half momths; pdb: Glasgow, Mo 12 Feb. 1884; up: Wrengler and Sons, Glasgow, MO; rp: J.W. Hawkins, Glasgow, MO
HAMER, William B. sc: male, white; ao: 79y 4m 9d, farmer; dt: 21 Jan 1884, 2 a.m.; ms: married; nw: American, Virginia; yr: 58y; pd: Howard Co., Mo; cd: Valvular disease of heart; cdd: pneumonia 5 or 6 days, 2 or 3 year; pdb: at home, 21 Jan. 1884; rp: J.J. Watts, Fayette, MO
ROBERTSON, Hannah sc: female, white; ao: 72 y; dt: 18 Feb. 1884, 9 a.m.; ms: widow; nw: American, Kentucky; yr: 60 yr; pd: Glasgow, Mo, cd: Pneumonia; cdd: about a week; pdb: Pleasant Green Cemetery, 19 Feb. 1884; up: Wengler and Sons; rp: J.W. Southwood, Glasgow, MO.
MITCHELL, Alexander sc: male, white; ao: 77y, carriage maker; dt: 2 Mar. 1884; ms: married; nw: American, Virginia; yr: 45 yr; pd: Fayette, Mo., cd: Paralysis; cdd: 1 to 2 yrs; pdb: Fayette, Mo, 3 Mar 1884; up: Schirk and Bower, Fayette, MO; rp: J.J. Watts, Fayette, MO
HANNA, James sc: male, white; ao: 67y, farming; dt: 15 Feb 1884; ms: single; nw: American, Virginia; yr: 50 yr; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: pneumonia; cdd: 6 days; pdb: on farm, 15 Feb. 1884; rp: J.J. Watts, Fayette, MO
HENDRIX, James sc: male, white; ao: 52y, farmer; dt: 7 Feb. 1884, 11 p.m.; ms: married; nw: American, Kentucky; yr: 10 yr; pd: Boonslick Township, cd: consumption; cdd: 5 yrs; pdb: Boonesboro, MO; rp: J.T. Moore, Boonesboro, MO
BAUGH, Elizabeth sc: female, white; ao: 64y, housekeeper; dt: 9 Mar. 1884, 1 p.m.; ms: widow; nw: American, Howard County, MO; yr: 64 yr; pd: Howard County, MO, cd: pneumonia; cdd: 9 days; pdb: Wesley Chapel; Thomas Yates, Armstrong, MO; rp: Wm C. Harvey, Roanoke, MO.
WALKUP, Anetta sc: female, white; ao: 64y, housekeeper; dt: 10 Mar, 1884, 4 p.m.; ms: widow; nw: American, Kentucky; yr: 60yr, pd: Armstrong, Mo, cd: pneumonia; cdd: Fracture of thigh, 8 days; pdb: Wesley Chapel; up: Tom Yates; rp: W.C. Harvey, Roanoke, MO
CRAWFORD, Martha Lee sc: male, white; ao: 4y 10m 26d; dt: 20 Feb 1884, 10:50 p.m.; nw: American, Howard County, MO; yr: life; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: heart disease; cdd: dropsey, 1 year; pdb: Mt. Gilead, 27 Feb. 1884; up: Schirk; rp: J.B. Seaton, Burton, MO
CREASON, Ann Mary sc: female, white; ao: 13y 10m; dt: 10 Mar 1884, 12 p.m.; ms: single; nw: American, Howard County; yr: 13 yr; pd: Howard County, Mo, cd: Phthisis; cdd: 6 months; pbd: Robertson Cemetery, 11 Mar 1884; rp: W.C. Harvey, Roanoke, MO
EATON, Lydia C. sc: female, white; ao: 59y; dt: 21 Jan 1884; md: widow; nw: American, Howard County; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: valvular weakness; cdd: pneumonia, 12 days, 12 days; pdb: Howard County, MO; rp: G.E. Chinn, Franklin, MO
NICKS, June T. sc: female, white; ao: 71y 7m 17d; ms: widow; nw: American, Virginia; yr: 28y; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: pneumonia; cdd: 7 days; pdb: Roanoke, MO, 16 Feb. 1884; up: Norris & Chitwood; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, MO
JOHNSON, Major sc: male, black; ao: 30y, Laborer; dt: 16 Mar. 1884, 4 p.m.; ms: Married; nw: American, Howard County, MO; pd: Fayette, MO; cd: pneumonia; had been a hard drinker; cdd: delerium tremeus, 6 days; pdb: Fayette, MO, 17 Mar 1884; up: Schirk & Bowers; rp: H.K. Givens, Fayette, MO.
PARTIN, Hadley J. sc: female; ao: 30y 1m; dt: 19 July 1884, 8 p.m.; nw: American, Virginia; yr: 16 yrs; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: confinement; cdd: placentia previa, 12 hours; pbd: Mt. Pleasant Church; up: Hawkins & Bentley, Harrisburg, MO; rp: E.M. Gentry, Harrisburg, MO
NO NAME sc: female; dt: 19 July 1884; nw: American Howard County, MO; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: stillborn; pdb: Mt. Pleasant Howard County, MO; up: Hawkins and Bentley; rp: E.W. Gentry, Harrisburg, MO
MOORE, Hyman sc: male, Mulatto; ao: 30 year, Farmer; dt: 5 July 1884; ms: widower; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: Hemorrhage from lungs immediate cause consumption; cdd: 12 months; up: Norris and Chitwood; rp:J.T. Bailey, Fayette, MO.
PORTERFIELD, Oscar sc: male, white; ao: 2y 9m; dt: 30 Jan. 1884, 12:30 p.m.; ms: single; nw: American, Howard County, MO; yr: 2y9m; pd: Howard County, MO, cd: Inflammatory croup; cdd: cold, 5 days; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, MO
MANION, Kate sc: female, white; ao: 3y; dt: 6 Feb 1884, 1 p.m.; ms: single; nw: American, Boone County, MO; yr: 3 yrs; pd: Howard County, Mo; cd: Bronchial croup; cdd: 4 days; rp: J.T. Bailey, Fayette, Mo.
WELLS, Wm sc: male, white; ao: 83y 7m, farmer; dt: 21 March 1884, 1 a.m.; ms: married; nw: American, Virginia; yr: 60 years; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: Femoral hernia of long standing; cdd: one week; pdb: Richland Cemetery, 22 Mar 1884; up: Wrengler and Sons, Glasgow, MO; rp: W.M. Prichett, Glasgow, MO
CREWS, Maggie F. sc: female; ao: 1y 3m 6d; dt: 16 Mar 1884, 9 a.m.; nw: American, Howard County, Mo; pd: Howard County, MO; cd: congestion of brain; cdd: 3 days; pdb: Mt. Pleasant Church, 18 Mar 1884; up: R. Thompson, Boonville, Mo; rp: W.D. Jackson, Franklin, Mo.
HOWARD, Manda sc: female, mulatto; ao: 47y, farmer; dt: 26 Dec. 1884 3 p.m.; ms: widow; pd: Sebree, MO; cd: hernous prostration from change of life; cdd: 30 days; Hehaw, 27 Dec. 1884; up: Finn; rp: W.M. Carr, Sebree, MO
HARRIS, Samuel sc: male, white; ao: 35y 20d, Farmer and Fisher; dt: 2 Mar 1884, 3 a.m.; ms: married, nw: American, New York; yr: 7y; pd: Lisbon; cd: Consumption; cdd: 7 yrs; pbd: Lisbon, 8 Mar 1884: rp: J.T. Weaver, Boonesboro, Mo
TAYLOR, GLen sc: male, black; ao: 15y; dt: 18 Mar 1884, 21 a.m.; ms: single; nw: Glasgow, Mo; yr: 15y; pd: Glasgow, Mo, cd: consumption; cdd: 9 months; pbd: Glasgow, Mo, 19 Mar 1884; up: Wrengler & sons, Glasgow, MO; rp: J.W. Southworth, Glasgow, Mo
HALL, L.E. sc: male, white; ao: 21y 4m 24d; farmer; dt: 29 Mar 1884, 5 a.m.; ms: single; nw: Missouri, Howard County, MO; pd: Howard County, MO,; cd: phhltasis pulmonalis; cdd: exhaustion of vital powers; tubucle of kindneys, 3 months; pbd: Gilliam Church; rp: B.E. Van Burkle, near Fayette, MO