1870 Mortality
              Benzie County



              (not all questions were asked in each township)

              Almira township


              family 11, Ebenezer Wheelock, male, white, widowed, b. VT, d. Apr, farmer, paralytias

              family 42, Electa Mansfield, 77, female, whie, married, b. VT, d. Aug, keeping house, consumption

              family --, Sally Mansfield, 73, female, white, widowed, b. VT, d. Sep, keeping house, consumption

              family 97, Mary Vemey, 3, female, white, b. OH, d. Dec, poisoned

              Benzonia township


              family 19, Lullu Belle Smith, 2, female, b. OH, d. Aug, inflamation in brain

              family 32, Charly Marshall Rellil, 27, male, b. OH, d. Apr, engineer civil, drowned

              family 40, Charly L. Bailey, 27, male, b. NY, d. Apr, farm laborer, drowned

              Colfax township


              family 7, Francis Hickey, 2, male, b. Canada West, d. Nov, cholira infuction

              family 14, Sophia Grinch, 18, female, b. PA, d. Oct, typhoid fever

              Crystal Lake township


              family 1, Cind(?) Ball, 4, female, b. MI, father of foreign birth, d. July, typhoid fever

              family 84, Ellen Fletcher, 24, female, b. IN, d. March, consumption

              family 91, Adam Lackhart, 6/12, male, b. MI, parents of foreign birth, d. Nov, croup

              family 102, John Cambell, 6/12, male, b. MI, d. Sep, cholorea infantion

              family 114, William Rabor, 26, male, b. MI, parents of foreign birth, d. Dec, sailor, drowned

              Homestead township


              family 23, Harriet Sinclair, 64, female, b. DC, parents of foreign birth, d. Aug, seamstress, paralylias

              family 25, Lori May Steele, 2, female, b. MI, d. Aug, whooping cough

              Inland township


              family 3, Burt Davis, 1/12, male, white, b. MI, d. July, cholera infantum

              Platt township


              family 10, Maggie Richbaugh, 3/12, female, white, b. MI, parents of foreign birth, d. June, cholera infantum

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