{"id":6992,"date":"2018-08-24T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:19:07","slug":"the-mortality-schedule-a-non-population-census-52-ancestors-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/the-mortality-schedule-a-non-population-census-52-ancestors-34\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mortality Schedule, a Non-Population Census – 52 Ancestors # 34"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a variety of non-population census schedules, some of which are accessible online these days (and some have actually been available for more than ten years).\u00a0 I think the first one I ran across was the mortality schedule for 1860 in Ohio.\u00a0 I was looking for my ancestor John Salt, who died in October 1859, and found the listing for him on the 1860 mortality schedule.<\/p>\n

\"RM-Salt,<\/a>What did I learn from this schedule?\u00a0 As can been seen, there are a number of pieces of information on this particular sheet.\u00a0 The columns include: name, age, gender, color, whether free or slave, and married or widowed, place of birth, month in which person died, occupation, disease or cause of death, and number of days ill.\u00a0 This information was gathered for persons who had died during the year that ended June 1, 1860, in this case for Tate Township in Clermont county, Ohio.\u00a0 So about John I learned that he was 76 when he died, he was married, he was born in Virginia, he died in October, he was a farmer, he had died from \u201cAffection of the Bladder\u201d and had been ill for 40 days.\u00a0\u00a0 In this case the \u201cAffection\u201d was the archaic meaning of condition or disease.\u00a0 This is about as much detailed information as I might have found on a death register from the time.\u00a0 For whatever reason, there either isn’t a death register in existence or it had not (and has not) been filmed or digitized.<\/p>\n

Due to the township and time frame, there are at least a couple of other individuals on the mortality schedule sheet who are of interest to me.\u00a0 The name directly below John Salt is Lucinda (Planck Wharton) Salt, who was John’s sister-in-law, his brother Edward’s 2nd wife.\u00a0 She was born in Kentucky and had suffered from a disease of the heart for the past year before her death.\u00a0 The last person, and last on the page, was Alphius Tribble, who was the father of a daughter named America who married a grandnephew of John’s.\u00a0 Alphius (or Alpheus) was 45 when he died of lock jaw.\u00a0 He also was a farmer and there is little other information about him.\u00a0 Although he was married at the time that fact wasn’t listed.\u00a0 Nor was where he was born.\u00a0 His daughter, America, who married a Salt would have been only about 13.<\/p>\n

I found this 1860 mortality schedule in 2007\"\"<\/a> and at that point the only information I had about John Salt’s death was from a compiled manuscript by family members.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until 5 years later that I made a trip to Ohio and saw John\u2019s grave for myself.\u00a0 So the mortality schedule was the strongest documentation I had for his death.\u00a0 As it continues to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a variety of non-population census schedules, some of which are accessible online these days (and some have actually been available for more than ten years).\u00a0 I think the first one I ran across was the mortality schedule for …<\/p>\n

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