IAGenWeb Project - Clayton co.


Clayton Co. - Register of Deaths
Book 1 - pages 9-19

Note: 1880 is the first year that the state of Iowa required deaths be reported and officially recorded.

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No Date of Report 1. Name

2. Sex & Color
1. Age

2. Occupation
Date & Time of Death Marital Status 1. Nationality

2.
Where Born
How long resident of Iowa 1. Place of Death

2. Cause of Death
1. Complication

2. Duration of Disease
1. Place of Burial

2. Date of Burial
Name & Residence of Physician Returning Certificate
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95 01/16/1881 Margaret A. Sargent

Female, White
34y

House keeping
01/03/1881 2 a.m. Married US

W. Va
[blank] Near Strawberry Pt Iowa

Puerpural convulsions
[blank]

48 hours
Near St Pt 01/04/1881 S.N. Bixby M.D. Strawberry Pt. Iowa
96 01/15/1881 Francis Kappen

Male, White
58y

Farmer
01/10/1881 10 a.m. Widower German

Prussia
20 yrs at his residence in Millville Twp

accidental discharge of a revolver in the hands of Franklin Munger
[blank]

[blank]
Guttenberg 01/12/1881 G.H. Jacobs Justice of the Peace Guttenberg Iowa
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97 01/10/1881 Ursilla Zurcher

Female, White
61y 8m 17d

Farmer
12/25/1881
[as written, likely should be 1880]

6:30 a.m.
Married German

Baden
16 yrs Farmersburg Iowa

Rupture of an Anurism of Abdominal Aorta
[blank]

12 years
Bismark Chapel Iowa L.L. Renshaw M.D. Farmersburg Iowa
98 01/25/1881 Myrtle Wilson

Female, White
2y 7m 01/15/1881 1:15 p.m. single American

Iowa
from birth Read Township Clayton Co Iowa

Membraneous Croup
[blank]

about 12 hours
Elkader Iowa 01/16/1881 William Wilson Parent Elkader Iowa
99 01/27/1881 Elizabeth Watkins

Female, White
72y 10m 12d

Farmers wife
01/22/1881 7 a.m. Married American

Foster Rhode Island
24 yrs Osborne Cox Creek Tp

Epilepsy
[blank]

10 months
Sec 17 Cox Creek Twp 01/23/1881 Perry Watkins Husband Osborne Iowa
100 02/01/1881 Edward Harnack

Male, White
3y 3m 16d 11/11/1880 1 a.m. single American

Garnavillo
from birth Garnavillo Iowa

Membraneous Croup
[blank]

24 hrs
Garnavillo cemetary 11/13/1880 W.H. Boals M.D. Garnavillo Iowa
101 02/01/1881 F. Marshall
Male, White
76y

Laborer
12/10/1880 1 p.m. widower German

[blank]
[blank] Clayton County Poor House

Pneumonia
[blank]

4 weeks
Clayton Co. Poor House 12/11/1880 W.H. Boals M.D. Garnavillo Iowa
102 02/01/1881 none so returned

Female, White
15d 12/15/1881 [1880 was crossed out & 1881 written in] [blank] American

Garnavillo twp Clayton Co Ia
[blank] Garnavillo Tp Clayton Co Ia

Diptheria Croup
[blank]

48 hours
Garnavillo cemetary 12/17/1881 W.H. Boals M.D. Garnavillo Iowa
103 01/31/1881 John Tinkhain

Male, White
67y 3m 26d

Farmer
01/15/1881 5 a.m. Married American

Maine
28 yrs. Volga City Iowa

Sciatic Rheumatism
Dropsey 4 1/2 months

about 11 months
Volga City Iowa 01/16/1881 W.H. Horton M.D. Volga City Iowa
104 02/08/1881 Lena Ann Boldan

Female, White
5m 01/12/1881 3:30 p.m. single U.S.

Delaware Co. Iowa
from birth Near Strawberry Pt Iowa

Probably Lung fever
[blank]

about 4 days
Strawberry Pt cemetary Allen W. Boldan Father Strawberry Point Iowa
105 02/09/1881 Fred Hodges Bass

Male, White
6m 3d 01/21/1881 10 a.m. single American

McGregor, Iowa
from birth McGregor

Puenmonia with cholera Infantum
Gastritis and dropsy of brain

about ten days
Cemetary McGregor Iowa 01/23/1881 H. Hamilton M.D. McGregor Iowa
106 01/31/1881 James Murphy

Male, White
5m 21d 01/17/1881 5 1/2 p.m. single American

North McGregor Iowa
[blank] North McGregor Iowa

Puemonia followed by Peritonitis
Infantile Diarrhora 4 days

8 days
Prairie du Chien Wis 01/19/1881 H. Hamilton M.D. McGregor Iowa
107 01/31/1881 Mrs. Elizabeth Schultz

Female, White
68y

[blank]
01/31/1881 4 a.m. Widow German

Mecklenburg Shrvern
12 yrs [?] Grand Meadow twp Clayton Co

Intestinal obstruction from a tumor in descending Polor character of tumor doubtful Probably Caucerous
[blank]

10 days
Postville cemetary 01/31/1881 John Sheperd M.D. Postville Iowa
108 03/01/1881 Michael Obrien

Male, White
62y

Farmer
03/01/1881 10 a.m. Married Ireland

Ireland
25 yrs. Cox Creek tp Clayton Iowa

Typhora Pneumonia
Chronic alcoholism & consumption not known

10 days
Cox Creek Catholic cemetary 03/03/1881 J.W. McLean M.D. Volga City Iowa
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109 03/05/1881 Amoritta Florence Hawthorn Female, white 27y 5m 9d Housewife 02/16/1881 11 p.m. Married American Cox Creek Tp Clayton co. Iowa from birth Volga City Iowa
Inflamation of base
of brain & spinal
cord, and labor
occurring at 7th day
of sickness, child
lived a few hours
7th month of pregnancy,
Vertigo & Vomiting 15 days
Volga City 02/18/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
110 03/05/1881 [blank] Hawthorn Female, white 1/2d 02/07/1881 Single [blank] Volga City Iowa about 2 hrs. Volga City
Premature birth
(7th month) and
imperfect development
from birth Volga City 02/09/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
111 02/28/1881 Patrick Shields Male 67y
Farmer
02/01/1881 Widower Irish
Ireland
25y Highland Tp Clayton
Co Iowa
Typhoid pneumonia
Hematurici result of chronic Alcoholism not known

31 days
Elkader Catholic cemetery 02/03/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
112 02/26/1881 Jonathan Goodwin Male, white 75y
Farmer
01/28/1881 Married American Grand Isle Vermont 28y Volga City
Eudo Carditis
[blank]
not known
Volga City 01/30/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
113 02/26/1881 Thomas Fairbairus Male, white 65y

Farmer

01/29/1881 Married [blank] Derby Shire England 26y Highland Tp Clayton
Co Iowa
Inflamation of Brain
& Spinal Cord
Condition of chronic Alcoholism not known
8 days under treatment
Highland 01/31/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
114 02/12/1881 Winthie Palmer
Male
11y 10m 2d 01/14/1881 Single American Blansburg Hamilton County   Volga City Iowa
Diphtheria
[blank]

9 days

Volga City cemetary 01/05/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
115 03/11/1881 August Kleinsorger Male 10d 02/10/1881   German Cass Township Clayton Co Iowa from birth Cass Township
Clayton Co Iowa
Supposed Hooping Cough
[both lines blank] St Sebald 02/13/1881 August Klemsorge, Parent St Sebald Iowa
116 03/17/1881 Mrs. Anna Brickhaus Female, white 28y
Housewife
03/14/1881 11 p.m. Married German Hanover 21y Mederville Iowa
Metro peritonitis
[blank]
about 28 days
Mederville Iowa 03/16/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
117 03/16/1881 Cordelia Davis
Female, white
40y 9m 18d Housekeeper 02/22/1881 12 a.m. Married American Maine 26y Bismark Iowa
Consumption
[blank]
6 yrs
Farmers-burg cemetery 02/24/1881 Chas E. Nichols MD, Giard Iowa
118 03/18/1881 Alice Hoffbaiser Female, white 3y 5m 12d [blank]   German Guttenberg Iowa from birth Guttenberg Iowa
Diptheria
[blank]
4 days
Guttenberg 02/26/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
119 03/18/1881 Bernhard Köster
Male, white
62y 11m
Miller
03/26/1881 11 p.m. Married German Germany 32y Guttenberg Clayton
Co Iowa
Paralysis Pulmonaus
(caused by catarrh of
20 years duration)
[blank]

5 days

Guttenberg 03/11/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
120 03/23/1881 G.W. Hampshire Male, white 8y 2m 7d 03/25/1881 11 a.m. Single [blank] Mendon Tp from birth Mendon Twp
Diptheria
[blank]
13 days
Mendon Twp [?] 03/27/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
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121 03/28/1881 Catharine Griffin Female, white 9y 10m 14d 03/27/1881 4:45 A.M. Single Irish McGregor from birth McGregor
Acute cerebral meningitis
[blank]
6 days
[? Cath Cem] McGregor H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
122 03/18/1881 [as written] Maria Krumm Female, white 36y 2m Housewife 04/09/1881
6 p.m.
Married German Germany 20m Garnavillo Twp
Clayton Co Iowa
Phitisis Pulmonalis
[blank]
final sickness 4 mo
Garnavillo cemetary 04/12/1881 W.H. Boales MD, Garnavillo Iowa
123 04/1881 Henry Harberg
Male, white
4y 6m 15d 01/16/1881 10 p.m. Single American Garnavillo Iowa from birth Garnavillo Iowa
Diptheria
[blank]
4 days
Garnavillo cemetary 01/18/1881 W.H. Boales MD, Garnavillo Iowa
124 03/21/1881 Christian Jakob Morsuer
Male, white
71y 10m 5d Farmer 03/17/1881 12 M Married German Germany 21y St Sebald Clayton
Co Iowa
Hepatitis syphilitisa
et Hoirtes et Lithia
vis vesvols [?]
Rheumatis-mus
Suffering 20 yrs
St Sebald Clayton Co Iowa 03/20/1881 G.H. Fueher Luth Minister St Sebald Iowa
125 1881 Mrs. W.G. Cona [?] Female, white 36y [or 76y] Domestic 03/04/1881
12
Married [blank]
New York
don't know McGregor
Hypertrophy of Heart
[blank]
don't know
McGregor Iowa 03/06/1881 W.H. Hall M.D. McGregor Iowa
126 03/11/1881 Catherine Louise Welsh Female, white 1m 14d 03/10/1881
8 a.m.
Single American Grand Meadow Twp Clayton Iowa from birth Grand Meadow
Twp Clayton Co Ia
Thrush
Gastro Intestinal Inflamation
6 days
Grand Meadow 03/11/1881 John Shepherd MD, Postville Iowa
127 04/07/1881 Mrs. Harriet Munson Female, white 81y 3m 5d Washer
woman
03/30/1881 10 a.m. Married New York [blank] not known McGregor Iowa
Cancer of the Uterus
Various vaginal ulcers and recto-vaginal fistula, ulcers several months, fistula about 3 weeks

About 8 months
City cemetery R.H. Williamson, Main St. McGregor, Iowa
128 04/18/1881 Gustafs Rechfus Male, white 55y
Farm laborer
03/31/1881
9 p.m.
Single German Germany about 30y Giard Township
Clayton Co Iowa
Murdered by a shot
from a gun in the
hands of an
unknown person
Body delivered to and buried by his friends [note: written in wrong column] Giard Iowa 04/03/1881 Henry C. Howe, acting coroner Monona Iowa
129 04/29/1881 Esther Burnington Female 49y 9m Housewife 04/07/1881 Married English Huntington Shire England 26y Sperry Township
Intra Uterine tumor
Blood poisoning about 2 weeks

6 years or more
Volga City cemetery 04/09/1881 J.W. McLean M.D., Volga City Iowa
130 12/08/81 [as written] William Dicker Jr
Male, white
3y 8m 26d 12/04/1880 Single Germany Brunswick five weeks near Strawberry Pt
Iowa
Remittant fever
Bronchitis about 1 week
2 weeks
St Sebald cemetery 12/05/1881 [as written] S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
131 05/04/1881 Margurette Bermann Female, white 66y 10m 6d Housewife 05/02/1881
9 p.m.
Single German Hanover 15y Garnavillo Township
Vulvulor Disease of
Heart
[blank] unknown Ceres cemetery 05/04/1881 C.W. Duffin & W.H. Boals MD's Garnavillo Iowa
132 05/??/1881 Willard Deitrich Backhaus Male, white 11y 4m 10d 04/25/1881
6 p.m.
Single American Garnavillo Twp from birth Garnavillo Twp
Iowa
Diptheria
[blank]
6 days
Ceres cemetery 04/27/1881 C.W. Duffin & W.H. Boals MD's Garnavillo Iowa
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133 05/17/1881 Joseph Mathias
Male, white
2m 04/17/1881
3 a.m.
Single German McGregor from birth McGregor
Main street
Convuls-ions
[blank]

3 hours

Pleasant Grove cemetery McGregor 04/19/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
134 05/17/1881 Simeon Briggs
Male, white
67y 2m 24d Laborer 05/11/1881 10 a.m. Widower [blank]
Mass
6m McGregor Iowa
Prospect Street
Tuberculosis
[blank]
about one year
Pleasant Grove cemetery McGregor H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
135 05/13/1881 Frederick T.H.H.G.P.C.E. Ryeberg Male, white 4y 9m 05/10/1881 Single German Clayton Co from birth Grand Meadow
Scarlet Fever
with Diphtheria
Diphtheritic Croup

5 days
Postville cemetery 05/13/1881 John Shepherd MD, Postville Iowa
136 06/11/1881 Jas Harry Male, white 62y
Farmer
5/26/1881
11 p.m.
Married American Pa 20y Osterdock
Belious Colic
[blank]
4 days
Osterdock Iowa 05/28/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
137 06/23/1881 Lois Chapman Female, white 66y 11m 22d 06/18/1881
3 a.m.
Widow U.S. Jefferson Co N.Y. 29y Strawberry Point
Iowa
Hemiplegia
[blank]
over a year
Cox Creek 06/19/1881 S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
138 06/28/1881 Harry F. Tyler Male, white 3d 05/18/1881
4 a.m.
Single [blank] McGregor Ia from birth McGregor
Convulsions
[blank]
from birth
McGregor Iowa 06/19/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
139 07/02/1881 James Sweeney Male, white 11y 3m School
boy
07/01/1881 10 a.m. Single Irish
Clayton
from birth McGregor Iowa
Ash Street 1st Ward
Drowning, body
delivered to parents
[both lines blank] McGregor Iowa 07/02/1881 Isaac Matthews J.P. Acting Coroner, McGregor Iowa
140 07/05/1881 Nettie Schrunk Female, white 3y 5m 06/28/1881
7 p.m.
Single U.S. Osterdock from birth Osterdock
Scarlatina
[blank]
3 days
Balsingers Grave yard 06/30/80 [as written] F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
141 07/05/1881 Hattie Schrunk Female, white 5y 8m 05/29/1881 11 a.m. Single U.S. Osterdock from birth Osterdock
Scarlatina
[blank]

5 days

Balsingers Grave yard 06/30/81 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
142 1881 John Hart Male, white 1y 6m 05/30/1881
2 a.m.
Single American Millville Iowa from birth Millville
Opinion Poisoning
given a patent
medicine
[blank]
3/4 day
Richarsons Grave yard 07/01/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
143 07/15/1881 C.F. Meyer Male, white 6m 14d 07/08/1881 a.m. Single American Clayton Co Iowa from birth Grand Meadow
Twp. Clayton Co Ia
Cerebral Meningitis
with effussion
[blank]
1 week
Postville cemetery 07/09/1881 Frederick Becker MD, Clermont Iowa
144 07/07/1881 Francis Trisukey Male, white 70y 2m 8d Farmer 06/02/1881
6 p.m.
Married American [illegible] 30y Clayton Tp Clayton
Co Iowa
Hemiplegia caused by
lesion of brain
[blank] 5 attack May 10, 1880, final attack [illegible] Clayton Center Ia 06/14/1881 Boals & Duffin, Garnavillo Ia
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145 07/08/1881 Cecilia Kelliger Female, white 2y 0m 14d 07/08/1881 [7/03/81?] 10:30 a.m. Single American Clayton Tp Clayton Co Ia from birth Clayton Tp Clayton
Co Iowa
Diptheria
[blank]
5 days
Garnavillo Catholic cemetery 07/04/1881 C.W. Duffin M.D. Garnavillo Iowa
146 07/01/1881 Frank J. Dunnegan Male, white 6m 06/25/1881
5 a.m.
Single [blank] Osborne Clayton Co Ia from birth Osborne Clayton Co
Iowa
Hemorrhage of
Bowels
Cerebral
about 2 days
Dubuque Iowa 06/27/1881 Joseph H. Craig M.D. Volga City Iowa
147 07/18/1881 Jno Morrison Male, white 70y
(imbecile)
07/07/1881
1 a.m.
[blank] Ireland [blank] 24y Volga City Iowa
unknown
[blank] unknown Clayton Co. Iowa 07/09/1881 J.H. Craig MD. Volga City Iowa
148 1881 Mrs. J. Hart Female, white 23y 11m 20d General 04/30/1881
8 p.m.
Married Madison Wis-consin [blank] don't know McGregor Iowa
Venarial
[blank] years hereditary McGregor Iowa 04/31/1881 W.H. Hall M.D. McGregor Iowa
149 07/31/1881 Maggie Smith Female, white 22y
General
06/19/1881
3 p.m.
Married [both blank] don't know McGregor Iowa
Malara
[blank]
4 days
McGregor Iowa [blank] W.H. Hall M.D. McGregor Iowa
150 07/30/1881 L.S. Shields Female, white 56y Housewife 07/20/1881 12M Widow don't know 4 weeks North McGregor
Iowa
Schlrosis of the
liver or inter stitial
Hepatitis
[blank]
Don't know
McGregor Iowa 07/22/1881 W.H. Hall M.D. McGregor Iowa
151 08/02/1881 Jason B. Brandenberry Male, white 55y 11m 24d Farmer 07/20/1881 [7/26/81?]
7 a.m.
Married American Ohio 15y Fairview Township
Allamakee County
Typho Malarial Fever
[blank]
One month
McGregor Iowa [blank] H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
152 08/01/1881 James Sweeney Male, white 11y 2m 6d 07/01/1881
9 a.m.
Single [blank] North McGregor from birth McGregor Iowa Drowning [both lines blank] Catholic cemetery 07/31/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
153 08/05/1881 George H. Frisbey
Male, white
4y 11m 25d 08/03/1881
2 p.m.
Single American Allamakee Co. Iowa from birth North McGregor
Drowning
[both lines blank] McGregor Iowa 08/04/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
154 08/12/1881 Cyrus Lovell Male, white 74y 3m 20d Farmer 07/30/1881
5 a.m.
Married [blank]
Mass
21y Strawberry Point
Iowa
Dysenteria
[blank]
11
Strawberry Point Iowa 07/30/1881 H.C. Chase MD. Strawberry Point Iowa
155 07/02/1881 Bessie May Turner Female, white 19d 07/01/1881 11 p.m.   [blank] Strawberry Point Iowa from birth Strawberry Point
Iowa
Enenic
[both lines blank] Strawberry Point Iowa 07/02/1881 H. Newell Sill M.D. Strawberry Point Iowa
156 08/15/1881 Charles [blank]
Male, white
4y 1m 17d [possibly 10d] 08/14/1881
8 a.m. [possibly 8/15/81]
Single American Grand Meadow Tp Clayton Co. Iowa from birth Grand Meadow Tp
Clayton Co Iowa
Dysentery
[blank]
12 days
Grand Meadow Tp Clayton Co Iowa 08/18/1881 L. Brown MD Postville Iowa
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157 08/05/1881 Mrs. Rebecca Harry
Female, white
58y 2d Farmers
wife
08/01/1881
2 a.m.
Widow American Maple Town Penn 25y Mallory Township
Paralytic Stroke
[blank]
10 minutes
Taylors Grave Yard 08/02/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
158 08/05/1881 Icie Phurman Female, white 9m 08/03/1881
2 p.m.
Single American Clayton Co. Iowa from birth Osterdock
Diptheria
Cerebritis 1 day

3 days
Taylors Grave Yard 08/04/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
159 08/16/1881 Samuel Hyde Male, white 76y
Farmer
08/15/1881
2 p.m.
Widow American Green Co. Penn 30y Mallory Township
Enteritis & Ulceration
of Bowels
Hemiplegia 1 day

2 weeks
Browns Graveyard 08/16/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
160 08/21/1881 Dietrich Kuker Male, white 72y 07/24/1881 Married Hanover Germany 20y Jefferson Twp
Clayton Co Ia
Marasmus Senitis
[both lines blank] Guttenberg 07/26/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
161 08/21/1881 Frederick Krezmeyer Male, white 87y
Farmer in former years
08/09/1881
7 1/2 p.m.
Widower Hanover Germany 34y Guttenberg
Dysentary
[blank]
5 days
Guttenberg 08/11/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
162 08/21/1881 DeWitt Christian Vansickle Male, white 68y
Farmer
08/09/1881 Married New York [blank] not known expecting many years McGregor
Accident was turned
over by a runaway
team from his wagon
hitting his left temple,
died in 3 hours
[both lines blank] City cemetery R.H. Williamson, McGregor, Iowa
163 08/19/1881 Minnie Preuss Female, white 17y
House-
keeping
08/16/1881
4 p.m.
Single unknown unknown 4 1/2 miles S.E.
Volga City Iowa
Suicide Probably
Insanity several years unknown Joseph H. Craig M.D. Volga City Iowa
164 08/19/1881 Nettie A. Benson Female, white 18y 6m 13d House-
keeper
08/08/1881 12 a.m. Married [blank] Elgin, Fayette Co. Iowa from birth Volga City Iowa
Typhoid Fever
Gastric & cerebral 1 week

12 days
Volga City 08/08/1881 J.H. Craig MD. Volga City Iowa
165 09/19/1881 Harriet Adams Female, White 26d 08/05/1881 12:30 a.m. Single [blank] Clayton Co. Iowa from birth Near Volga City
Iowa
Infantile Convulsions
[blank] unknown Volga City 08/05/1881 Joseph H. Craig M.D. Volga City Iowa
166 08/01/1881 Charles Grech
Male, white
28y 11m 6d Farmer 07/04/1881 Single Behns Germany 3y Near St Sebald
Iowa
Injury to Spinal colum
in cervical region, fell
from a buggy back-
wards striking on head
& shoulders
[blank]
36 hours
St Sebald cemetery 07/05/1881 S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
167 08/01/1881 George Speed
Male, white
62y 9m Farmer 09/28/1881 Married US Columbia Co. N.Y. 26y 5 mi N.W. Strawberry
Point Iowa
Cancer of Stomach,
was subject to Dyspepsia
[blank]
about one year
Reeds Burying ground Clayton Co Iowa S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
168 08/26/1881 Artie Westfall Male, white 11y 5m 08/23/1881 Single [blank] Fayette Co Iowa from birth Strawberry Point Iowa
Hemorrage from the
bowels following
or complicating dysentery
[blank] Dysentery 2 weeks

3 days
Strawberry Point cemetery 08/24/1881 S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
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169 08/17//1881 Jennie Bissell Female, white 4y 5m 13d 08/08/1881 11 a.m.   American Volga City Iowa from birth Volga City Clayton Co
Iowa
Diptheria
none

4 days
Volga City Iowa 08/08/1881 W.H. Horton M.D. Volga City Iowa
170 09/01/1881 Sarah Elizabeth Smith
Female, white
2y 1m 11d 08/13/1881 10 a.m. Single [blank] Monona Twp Clayton Co Iowa 2y Monona Twp
Clayton Co Iowa
Cholera Infantum
[blank]

6 days
Wagner cemetery 08/14/1881 John L. Shepherd M.D. Luana Clayton Clayton Co Iowa
171 08/06/1881 Albert Vern Cowles
Male, white
1y 2m 27d 08/05/1881 Single American Mendon Twp Clayton Co Iowa from birth Mendon Twp
Clayton Co. Iowa
Dysentary
[blank]
6 days
[both lines blank] No Signature
172 09/07/1881 Dewit C. Vansickle Male, white 67y 4m 23d Farmer 08/09/1881 Married German New York 52y McGregor
Thrown from Wagon Seui
3 hours after receiving
injury
[both lines blank] in home graveyard Mendon Twp Clayton Co Iowa 08/11/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
173 09/10/1881 Unknown Male, white 1y 08/29/1881 10 p.m.   German near Ion Allamakee Co Iowa 1y near Ion Allamakee Co
Iowa
Cholera infantum
immediate cause, was
sick for 4 weeks with
diarrea and teething
[blank]
4 weeks
Council Hill Allamakee co Iowa 08/31/1881 H.F. Schneider M.D. Luana Iowa
174 09/10/1881 Rev U. Piepenburg Male, white 36y
Minister of the Gospel
08/27/1881 10 p.m. Married German Germany 22y Bismark Iowa
Dysentary
Chronic gastritis of a dispeptic nature 19 years

10 days
Wisconsin 08/29/1881 H.F. Schneider Monona Iowa
Transcription note - Handwritten in between the rows, is this note: "Report made up to Oct 1, 1881"
The numbering then starts over with #1.
1 07/1881 Alphonsus Barrett
Male, white
3m 15d 07/20/1881
5 a.m.
Single American Read Twp Clayton Co Iowa from birth Read Township
Clayton Co Ia
Cholera Infantum
[blank]
5 days
Garnavillo Catholic cemetery 07/21/1881 Boals & Duffin, Garnavillo Ia
2 08/15/1881 Henry Herman Schuwaeher Male, white 59y 8m 11d Brewer 08/11/1881
5 p.m.
Married German Germany 35y Garnavillo Twp
Clayton Co Iowa
Cerebral Hemorrhage
[blank] Instantaneous Garnavillo cemetery 08/13/1881 W.H. Boales MD, Garnavillo Iowa
3 08/27/1881 Velma Von Velzer Female, white 1y 27d 08/26/1881
6 p.m.
Single American Grand Meadow from birth Grand Meadow
Clayton Co Ia
Cerebral Meningitis
[blank]
5 days
Mynert cemetery Allamakee Co Ia 08/27/1881 John Shepherd MD, Postville Iowa
4 10/22/1881 Henry W. Oelkers
Male, white
5m 21d 08/08/1881
2 p.m.
  American Garnavillo Ia from birth [blank]
Cholera Infantum
[blank]
3 days
Garnavillo cemetery 08/11/1881 Boals & Duffin, Garnavillo Ia
5 09/30/1881 Joseph Bennier
Male, white
90y
Farmer
09/29/1881
5 a.m.
Widower Scotch Scotland 44y Cox Creek Twp
Intermittant fever
Variety Tertian
[blank]
1 week
Cox Creek twp. 09/30/1881 Jno Fishel M.D. Littleport Ia
6 10/28/1881 Anna Maria Book
Female, white
56y 11m 7d 09/29/1881 11 a.m. Married German Germany since 1856 Guttenberg Clayton
Co Iowa
Matritis chronica and
sarrhous induration
of the womb
[blank]
2years
8 months
Guttenberg 10/01/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
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7 09/28/1881 [Suia ?] Schultz
Male, white
1y 14d 09/27/1881 11:20 a.m. Single [blank] Grand Meadow Clayton Co Ia from birth Grand Meadow
Clayton Co Ia Cholera
Infantum and Dentition
Ending in Convulsions
Dentition with convolsions 10 hours

6 days
Postville cemetery 09/28/1881 John Shepherd MD, Postville Iowa
8 09/25/1881 Ashley Roseborough Male, white 2y 09/24/1881 11 a.m. Single [blank] Ontario Canada 4m Strawberry Point
Iowa
Dysentary
Meningitis
3 days
Strawberry Pt cemetery 09/25/1881 S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
9 10/20/1881 Eda Christina Belling Female, white 1y 4m 11d 09/21/1881 4 a.m. Single [blank] Clayton Co Iowa from birth Clayton township
C Malaria Fever
convulsions 3hrs

4d
Mendon Twp [blank] H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
10 10/01/1881 Bird Milles Female, white 1y 6m 14d laboreres daughter 09/17/1881
9 p.m.
Single America Prescott Iowa from birth Mallory township
Dysentary Ascarides
Lennibricoides
[blank]
2 months
Taylors Grave yard 09/18/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
11 10/20/1881 Daniel Griffin Male, white 2y 10m 20d 09/17/1881
4 p.m.
Single Irish McGregor
Ia
from birth McGregor
Malaria Fever
convulsions 2 hrs

3 days
Catholic cemetery McGregor [blank] H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
12 09/14/1881 John Krambeer Sr Male, white 61y 9m 1d Farmer 09/07/1881
7 a.m.
Married German Germany 15y ReadTwp
Clayton Co Iowa
Verdict of Jury
cause unkown to the
Jury, Body delivered
to friends
[blank] undertakers Charles Schultz & J.H. Schwarcke Clayton Center cemetery [blank] Wm. A. Penfield coroner Volga City Iowa
13 09/30/1881 Ida Kuhse Female, white 11m 09/01/18818 a.m.   German Germany 2m Guttenberg Clayton
Co Ia
Cholera Infantum
[blank]

20 days
Guttenberg [blank] Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
14 10/09/1881 Jonas Oleson Male, white 35y
Laborer
10/08/1881 11:30 p.m. Single Sweden Sweden about 15y near McGregor Iowa
Ran over by C.M.&
St Paul R.R. train
[blank] undertakers Walter Bros McGregor Iowa Swede settlement Isaac Matthews J.P. Acting Coroner, McGregor Iowa
15 10/08/1881 Otto Schatt Male, white 7m 4d 10/07/1881 11 a.m. Single [blank] McGregor from birth C street 1st ward
McGregor Gastro
Entiatis or chronic
diarrhora following
cholera infantum due
to improper feedings
Convulsions 5 hours

4 weeks
Pleasant Grove cemetery [blank] R.H. Williamson M.D. Main St McGregor
16 10/30/1881 Dennis Murphy
Male, white
21y 1m 22d Laborer 10/02/1881 near 7:30 o'clock Single [blank] Willmington New Castle Co Delaware 14y East Elkport Elk Twp
Clayton Co Ia
By a carpenters cross
and hand saw in the
hands of [Allcon ?] Meehan
cutting a severe wound in
the right side of the neck
five inches long causing
immediate death
sent by R.R. to friend to Dewitt Clinton Co Iowa Undertaker Charles Schneff East Elkport Iowa Wm A. Penfield Coroner Volga City Iowa  
17 10/19/1881 John M. Eberhard Male, white 83y
Farmer
10/18/1881
7 p.m.
Widower German Germany 29y Volga Township Clayton
Co. Iowa
Suicide by shooting two
pistol wounds one in temple
and one in frontal region
Both balls supposed to have
entered cavity of the brain
[both lines blank] Jno Fishel M.D. Littleport Iowa  
18 10/??/1881 Clara Welch Female, white 24y 22d Farmers Wife 10/22/1881
8 p.m.
Married American Epworth Iowa [blank] Millville Twp
Typhoid fever &
pneumonitis
[blank]
4 weeks
Mallory Twp 10/21/1881 F.E. Bell M.D. Osterdock Iowa
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19 10/29/1881 Henry Rascher Male, white 77y 11m 17d

[blank]
10/26/1881 Widower German Germany 10y Guttenberg C.C. Iowa
Chronic Diarrhoea
[blank]
4 week
Guttenberg Cemetery 10/28/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa
20 10/25/1881 Bertha Faillan [Faiuan ?] Girl, white 7m 7d 10/11/1881
5 a.m.
Single American Strawberry Pt Iowa from birth Cass Township
Cholera infantum
[blank]
8 days
Strawberry Pt cemetery 10/12/1881 H.C. Chase MD. Strawberry Point Iowa
21 10/17/1881 John Klacke Male, white 64y 10m 9d Farmer 10/16/1881
2 a.m.
Married German Germany 29y Garnavillo Twp
Chronic congestion
of the liver
[blank] unknown Garnavillo cemetery (old) 10/17/1881 Boals & Duffin, Garnavillo Ia
22 10/22/1881 Malinda C. Roggmann Female, white 8m 12d 10/12/1881
4 p.m.
  American Garnavillo Iowa from birth Garnavillo Twp
Clayton Co Ia
Cholera Infantum
[blank]
10 days
Garnavillo cemetery 10/28/1881 Boals & Duffin, Garnavillo Ia
23 11/15/1881 Ambrose Taylor
Male, white
80y
None
11/06/1881 Married American New Jersey 20y Lodomillo Clayton
Co Iowa
Stricture of the
Urethra
[blank]
6 days
Lodomillo 11/08/1881 H. Newell Sill M.D. Strawberry Point Iowa
24 11/15/1881 Cyrena Ward Female, white 79y 9m 9d 11/12/1881 7:38 Widow [blank]
Nof
28y Cass Twp Clayton
Co Iowa
Typhoid
Pneumonia
[blank]
9 days
County Corners 11/04/1881 H. Newell Sill M.D. Strawberry Point Iowa
25 11/06/1881 [blank] Haeschen Female, white 3y 2m 08/18/1881 10 a.m. Single American Garnavillo Iowa from birth Farmersburg Iowa
Colitis
[blank]
10 days
Farmersburg cemetery 08/20/1881 L.L. Renshaw M.D. Farmersburg Iowa
26 11/06/1881 George Beusing
Male
1y 1m 20d 08/09/1881 11 p.m. Single American Wagner Tp 1y Wagner Twp
Colitis
Convulsions 5 hours

5 days
Farmersburg cemetery 08/12/1881 L.L. Renshaw M.D. Farmersburg Iowa
27 11/06/1881 [blank] Torson Male 7m 24d 08/16/1881
9 p.m.
Single American Wagner Twp [blank] Wagner Twp
Entero Colitis
Convulsions 5 hours

4 days
Wagner cemetery 08/18/1881 L.L. Renshaw M.D. Farmersburg Iowa
28 11/06/1881 [blank] Wilder Male 1y 8m 24d 09/12/1881
7 a.m.
Single American Mendon Twp from birth Bismark
Entero Colitis
[blank]
8 weeks
Bismark cemetery 09/13/1881 L.L. Renshaw M.D. Farmersburg Iowa
29 11/17/1881 John Mann Male, white 72y
Cabinet maker
11/02/1881
1 a.m.
Married German Germany 25y Giard Clayton
Co. Iowa
Consumption
[blank]
4 weeks
Giard 11/04/1881 H.F. Schneider M.D. Monona
30 11/17/1881 Louise Cassady Female, white 40y 10/24/1881
6 a.m.
Widow American [blank] 12y Monona at her
fathers
Heart Lession
Rheumation Dropsey

4 days
Monona 10/25/1881 H.F. Schneider M.D. Monona Iowa
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31 10/17/1881 Ernst Carl Meisgrier Male, white 7m 2d 10/14/1881
2 1/4 m
  German Fayette Co Ia [blank] Fairfield Twp
Fayette Co Iowa
Cholera Infantum
Eklampsia Infantum

14 d
St Sebald Clayton Co Iowa 10/16/1881 G.H. Fueher Luth Minister St Sebald Iowa
32 12/02/1881 Julia A. Beard Female, white 65y 2m 29d Housewife 11/22/1881
12 m
Widow American Maryland 1y McGregor
Consumption
[blank]
2 years
Richland Co Wis 11/24/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
33 12/02/1881 Richard Young
Male, white
25y 5m 23d Brakeman R.R. 11/06/1881 12m Married [blank] Elkhard Indiana 6 weeks North McGregor
Clayton Co
Typho Malarae
Fever
Peritonitis 48 hrs

10 days
Elkhard Indiana 11/08/1881 H.H. Clark MD, McGregor
34 12/03/1881 Orrin S. Rogers
Male, white
17y 3m 20d 11/29/1881 7 p.m. Single American McGregor Clayton Co Ia from birth On railroad track in Mendon township Crushed by two freight cars passing over him, verdict of the jury, cars passing over him, from the shock and hemorhage. Jurors- H. Reinow, M.L. McGeyars, John S. Barr. Jury exonerated railway company deceased was not in their service. H. Hamilton M.D. attended inquest [both lines blank] Knapp burial ground Mendon Twp 12/02/1881 a pauper Walter Bros McGregor undertakers J.H. Scrogum J.P. acting coroner, N. McGregor, Iowa
35 12/03/1881 Daniel Corliss Male, white 68y 2m 28d Laborer 11/30/1881 between 3 & 9 p.m. Married American New Hampshire 17y at Round house of CM&StP R.R. Co Applexy. Was found in coal car dead supposed to have been dead 4 or 5 hours. H.H. Clark M.D. was called; Jurors H. Reinow, D.E. Grout, J.S. Barr. Jurors verdict dided from apoplexy and natural [both lines blank] McGregor cemetery buried 12/02/1881 Delivered to friends, buried as a pauper, undertakers Walter Bros McGregor Ia J.H. Scrogum J.P. acting coroner, N. McGregor, Iowa
36 11/15/1881 Baby Stockwell Female, white 2m 19d 11/06/1881 Single U.S. Strawberry Point Iowa from birth Strawberry Point Iowa Meningitis Dysentery

6 weeks
near Strawberry Point 11/07/1881 S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
37 12/01/1881 Alice Almen Truow Female, white 10m 11d 11/11/1881 Single U.S. Strawberry Point Iowa from birth Strawberry Point Meningitis [blank]

about 5 weeks
Strawberry Point [blank] S.N. Bixby MD, Strawberry Pt Iowa
38 [blank] Doretha Schultze Female, white 46y 9m 12/03/1881 1 a.m. Married German Germany 16y Clayton Township Consumption [blank]
8 years
Clayton Clayton Co Ia [blank] W.F. Behle M.D. Garnavillo Iowa
39 [blank] [blank]
Male, white
2d 11/20/1881 11 p.m. Single [blank] Strawberry Pt Iowa from birth Strawberry Point Iowa Premature Birth from 7 to 8 months child [blank]
from birth
Burying Ground H.C. Chase MD. Strawberry Point Iowa
40 11/11/1881 Martha F. Cooley
Female
44y 11m 23d 10/22/1881 8 1/2 p.m. Married [blank] Washington Co. N.Y. 26y Cass Twp Strawberry Pt Iowa Rheumatism To heart and head about 2 days

6 weeks
Franklin or Strawberry Pt H.C. Chase MD. Strawberry Point Iowa
41 11/11/1881 Leon Dubmil Kingsley
Male
10m 28d 10/14/1881 4 p.m. Single [blank] Plainfield Bremer Co Ia from birth Lodomillo Clayton Co Iowa
Cholera Infantum
[blank]
6 days
Strawberry Pt Iowa 10/16/1881 H.C. Chase MD. Strawberry Point Iowa
42 12/29/1881 Henry Roth Male, white 21y 5m 14d 11/30/1881 1 a.m. Single German Clayton Co Ia from birth at his brothers [mothers?] home Jefferson Twp Clayton Co Ia
Typhoid fever
[blank]
9 days
Guttenberg catholic 12/02/1881 Wm Hoffbauer MD, Guttenberg Iowa


-Transcription note: Every effort has been taken to transcribe the record accurately, but errors are possible. Notes in [brackets] were added by the transcriber. Please use this transcription as a guide only & always consult the original record to confirm the information.

-Source: Register of deaths v. 1, 1880-1897, FHL film #1255482
-Transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall for Clayton co. IAGenWeb from photocopies contributed by Constance Diamond

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