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

Contributed by Vicki Wilson