Newton County, Texas 1870 Mortality Schedule Persons dying during the year ending June 1, 1870. Transcribed from picture on Ancestry.com NAME AGE SEX COLOR MARRIED PLACE of FATHER MOTHER MONTH OCCUPATION DISEASE last or Widowed BIRTH foregn Birth foreign birth Died ======================================================================================================================================== Sanders, Martha 14 F W Louisiana August Dropsy Burr, Henry W. 14 M W Louisiana April ? Smith, Sidney 1 M W Texas December Fever Snell, Tom 5 M B Texas November Diptheria Trottie, Nancy 40 F W M Alabama February Keeping House Puerperal fever McWilliams, Thomas 70 M W M Georgia June Farmer Dropsy Stark, Nancy 36 F W M Georgia February Keeping House Puerperal fever Bush, William B. 4/12 M W Texas January Unknown Phelps, Enic S.[Enoch] 66 M W M South Carolina September Farmer Fever Rigway, Augustus 18 F M Texas May Epilepsy Hamlet, William 4 M W Texas April Killed ? Hare, Nancy 20 F W M Louisiana June Keeping House Abortion Williams, Joseph 45 M W M Tennessee February Farmer Chronic Diarrhea? Blackshear, Tom 1 M B Texas August Intermitting ? Cheatham, Martha A. 39 F W M Kentucky February Keeping House Consumption Seybolt, Charles 65 M W M Prussia yes yes September Practicing Fever Physician Submitted by Eleanor Colson