1850 MORTALITY CENSUS OF POTTER COUNTY

FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 1, 1850

The following is courtesy of the Potter County Historical Society, Coudersport, Pennsylvania.
To contact the Society, write to P.O. Box 605, Coudersport, PA 16915.

(from Potter County Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, No. 10, October 1968)

Nancy Ayers, Coudersport Boro., age 75; wid., b. Eng., d. Aug.

Lydia L. Abbot, Coudersport Boro., age 2/12; b. Pa., d. May, croup.

Chas. W. Chapin, Coudersport, age 22; b. N.Y., d. Oct.; consumption.

Wm. Churchhill, age 54; b. N.Y.; married; d. Apr., tyfus fever.

George Clark, age 3/12; b. Pa.; d. Sept.; dysentery.

Elizabeth Clark, age 28; married; b. Pa.; d. Sept.; dysentery.

William Clark, age 3 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. Sept.; dysentery.

Bridget Conyngham, age 1 yr.; b. Ire.; d. July; cause unknown.

Adeline Doolittle, age 21 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. May; child birth.

Mary Ellis, age 9/12; b. Pa.; d. June; eating caterpillars.

Sarah English, age 45 yrs.; widow; b. Pa.; d. Oct.

Infant Foster, age 6/12; b. N.Y.; d. Dec.

Lyman Gleason, age 3/12; b. N.Y.; d. Dec.

Infant Gridley, age 3 days; b. Pa.; d. Nov.

David Hare, age 68 yrs.; married; b. Germany; d. Apr.; drowned.

Sarah A. Hitchcock, Allegany Twp.; b. N.Y.; d. Dec.; choked on a bean.

Roe Howe, Allegany Twp.; age 44 yrs.; married; b. N.Y., d. Nov.; stone in gall and affection of the liver.

Thomas Impson, age 15 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. Apr.; killed by a raft.

Arad F. Jones, Allegany Twp.; age 10 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. Oct.; brain dropsy.

Henry L. Jones, age 30 yrs.; married; b. N.Y.; d. Oct.; dropsy.

John W. Kilbourne, age 7 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. Oct.; influenza bowels.

Mary Lawton, Allegany Twp.; age 2 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. May; swallowed a brass button; ill 60 days.

Mary McDoughall, age 66 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. Mar.; influenza of the brain.

Newbald Mann, age 6/12; b. Pa.; d. May; influenza of the lungs.

James Markey, age 4/12; b. Pa.; d. Mar.; croup.

Hester Meacham, age 36 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. June; consumption for 90 days.

Eliza Nichols, age 3 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. Sept.; cholera morbus.

Lorinda Nichols, age 2 yrs.; b. Wisc.; d. June; drowned.

Washington Quick, Allegany Twp.; age 4 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. Sept.; cholera morbus sick 18 hours.

Sylvia Patterson, widow; age 63 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. Jan.; dropsy, 16 yrs.

Ann E. Persing, married; age 59 yrs.; b. Pa.; d. Oct.; consumption for 150 days.

John G. Raymond, married; age 25 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. Nov.; influenza of the Bowels; sick for 60 days.

Henry Redner, widower; age 79 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. Mar.; dropsy for 30 days; shoemaker.

Infant Roberts, age 3; b. Pa.; d. Apr.; influenza of the brain, sick 8 days.

Lydia Seely, age 8/12; b. Pa.; d. Aug.; dysentery, sick 4 days.

Thomas Shattuck, Allegany Twp.; age 11/12; b. Pa.; d. May; cause unknown; sick 6 days.

Benjamin D. Tucker, age 49 yrs.; b. N.Y.; d. May; consumption for 4 years; shoemaker.

Transcribed and submitted by Maureen Lee.

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