Mortuary Report
from Muscatine City Sexton
| Muscatine County, Iowa Mortuary Report from Muscatine City Sexton | |
Source: "MUSCATINE JOURNAL" Muscatine, Iowa, March 12, 1874
Submitted by Beverly Bonnen on September 15, 2010
MORTUARY. - From the annual report of City Sexton Seiler we learn that from March 8, 1873, to March 8, 1874, there were interred in the city cemeteries 51 adults and 53 children; total, 104. The following is a lists of the interments in the "City Cemetery" proper, the sexton not being required to keep a record of interments in the other grounds:
| Apr | 4 | George W. Fulliam | 4 yrs |
| Apr | 9 | William Fessler | 40 yrs |
| Apr | 10 | Anesl Humphreys | 81 yrs |
| May | 9 | Ruhama Crandol | 71 yrs |
| May | 10 | Charles Bodman | 16 yrs |
| Jul | 4 | J. W. Sutton | Infant |
| Jul | 9 | George Ziegler | Infant |
| Jul | 15 | F. M. Day | Infant |
| Jul | 19 | E. Mary Applegate | 1 yr |
| Sep | 18 | Martha A. Hoefer | 28 yrs |
| Sep | 28 | Arthur W. Hoefer | 3 yrs |
| Oct | 1 | Charles Reese | 4 yrs |
| Oct | 2 | Nicholas Brooks | Infant |
| Oct | 6 | Sarah Lawrence | 55 yrs |
| Oct | 27 | Charles Foster | Infant |
| Dec | 21 | Maria Smith | 2 yrs |
| Jan | 17 | E. G. Black | Infant |
| Jan | 22 | Elizabeth Seiler | 36 yrs |
| Feb | 13 | Alice Hall | 1 yr |
| Feb | 14 | Maria Cruffman | 26 yrs |
| Feb | 26 | Francis Drake | 54 yrs |