Clayton co IAGenWeb - Death Records

Death Records Index
Clayton County Index

Clayton Co. - Register of Deaths
Book 1 - pages 30-39

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
34	2/2/83	Andros Seitz Male, White	85y Laborer	1/23/1883 9 p.m.	Widower	German Germany	80 yrs	Clayton co. Poor House Old Age	[blank] 3 1/2 mos	CC Poor Farm 1/25/83	S.A. Bass MD Elkader Iowa
35	1/24/83	Mary Ann Reed Female, White	73y 1m 29d Housewife	1/19/1883 5 a.m.	Married	American Vermont	29 yrs.	Sperry Tp Iowa Pneumonia	[blank] 10 days	Reeds cemetery 1/21/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
36	2/26/83	Lizzie Miller Female, White	21y 9m 1d [blank]	1/27/1883 1 1/2 p.m.	Single	German Iowa	[blank]	Putnam Twp Fayette Co Iowa Medullary Cancer	[blank] 2 yrs	St. Sebald 1/29/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
37	8/26/82	Esther Mary Alderson Female, White	1y 6m 10d	-/25/1882 10 p.m.	Single	American Iowa	[blank]	Cox Creek Fits	[blank] 6 hours	Sperry 8/27/82	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
38	2/28/83	Archibald P. Freeman Male, White	48y 10m 24d Farmer	2/22/1883 2 p.m.	Married	American N.Y.	29 yrs.	Sperry Township Clayton Co Iowa Pneumonia	[blank] 23 days	Volga City Iowa 2/25/83	W.H. Horton MD Volga City Iowa
39	2/28/83	Justus King Male, White	76y 4m 14d Farmer	1/31/1883 10 p.m.	Widower	American N.Y.	30 yrs.	Sperry Township Clayton Co Iowa Pneumonia	[blank] 12 days	Volga City Iowa 2/2/83	W.H. Horton MD Volga City Iowa
40	2/28/83	Julia A. Knapp Female, White	34y Housewife	2/28/1883 [blank]	Married	Canadian Canada West	30 yrs.	Pleasant Ridge Clayton Co. Iowa Malignant Erysipdas	[blank] 3 days	Pleasant Ridge cemetery 2/3/1883 *	H.H. Clark MD McGregor, Iowa
41	1/30/83	Mary Hultgreen Female, White	67y 6m 5d Housewife	1/28/1883 3 a.m.	Married	Swede Sweeden	10 yrs.	Mendon Twp Clayton Co Ia Apoplexy	[blank] [blank]	Mendon Tp 1/30/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor, Iowa
42	2/28/83	Clara E. Smith Female, White	40y 11m 9d Housewife	2/23/1883 12:25 a.m.	Married	American New York	10 mos	McGregor Cysto Sarcom involving ovary omentum uterine & spinal column of left side	[blank] almost 3 yrs	Detroit Mich 2/26/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor, Iowa
43	1/31/83	Rosa M.K. Young Female, White	8m 17d	1/28/1883 9:30 p.m.	Single	German McGregor	from birth	McGregor Pneumonia	Convulsions 12 hrs 2 weeks	Pleasant Grove cemetery 2/29/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor, Iowa
44	3/25/83	no name Female, White	20 minutes	3/25/1883 3:30 a.m.	Single	German Iowa	[blank]	Grand Meadow Tp Clayton Co Ia Premature birth	[blank] [blank]	Gr. Meadow cemetery 3/25/83	John Shepherd MD Postville Iowa
45	3/29/83	S. Valiquist Male, White	75y Laborer	3/29/1883 12:30 p.m.	[blank]	French [blank]	[blank]	Clayton County Insane Asylum General debility & old age	[blank] [blank]	CC Insane Asylum 3/30/83	S.A. Bass MD Elkader Iowa
*date typed as in original record

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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
46	3/29/83	Wm Lunow Male, White	27y Laborer	2/13/1883 6:00 a.m.	Single	Germany [blank}	9 yrs	Clayton County Insane Hospital Senile Gangrene	[blank] [blank]	Clayton Co Asylum 2/14/83	S.A. Bass MD Elkader Iowa
47	3/27/83	Maria Barbara Kopp Female, White	56y 11m 1d Housekeeping	3/1/1883	Married	German Germany	24 yrs	Volga Tp Apoplexic = Had 2 weeks before her death an attack of apoplexic synrope	Fatty degeneration of the Heart [blank]	cemetery in Volga Tp [blank]	A. Kraft MD Elkader Iowa
48	4/13/83	Henry John Tawes Male, White	65y 4m 7d Stone Mason	3/13/1883 8 a.m.	Widower	German Germany	28 yrs	Garnavillo Paralysis	[blank] unknown	Garnavillo cemetery 3/15/83	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
49	7/16/83	Katie Krueger Female, White	7y 9m 1d	3/19/1883	Single	Iowa Iowa	from birth	Garnavillo Township Catarrhal Pneumonia following Measles	[blank] 3 weeks	Garnavillo cemetery [blank]	Boals & Sharp MDs Garnavillo Iowa
50	4/16/83	Charles Beattey Male, White	29y 1m 28d Farmer	3/25/1883 1 a.m.	Married	[blank] N.Y.	29 yrs	Volga City Iowa Pneumonia	[blank] about 9 days	Volga City Ia 3/27/83	J.H. Craig MD Volga City Iowa
51	4/28/83	Michael Barrett Male, White	37y Farmer	4/14/1883 4 a.m.	[blank]	Irish Iowa	from birth	Clayton County Insane Asylum Sufocation	[blank] [blank]	Garnavillo 4/15/83	John H. Kiesel Supt Read Iowa
52	5/4/83	Barbara Kleinlein Female, White	76y 9m 15d Housekeeper	3/21/1883 9 a.m.	Widow	German Germany	21 yrs	Cass Tp Clayton County Iowa Old age	[blank] few hours	St. Sebald 3/23/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
53	5/22/83	Helen M. Harwood Female, White	43y 2m 28d Housekeeper	2/13/1883 11 p.m.	Widow	American Ct	13 yrs	Strawberry Point Pulmonary Consumption	[blank] 4 years	Reeds cemetery Iowa 2/15/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
54	[blank]	Elma Davis Female, White	[blank] [blank]	3/18/1883 [blank]	Single	[blank] Iowa	from birth	Putnam Fayette co Iowa Convulsions	[blank] 7 days	[blank] [blank]	[blank]
55	5/12/83	Daniel Merrill Sterns Male, White	75y 7m 21d Minister	4/14/1883 1 a.m.	Married	American Vt	29 yrs	Strawberry Point Iowa Paralysis Agitans	Capilsary Bronchitis about a week 7 yrs	Strawberry Point 4/15/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
56	5/12/83	Lydia Adams Female, White	72y Housewife	4/20/1883 11 a.m.	Married	American Ohio	38 yrs	Cass Twp Iowa Pulmonary Consumption	[blank] for years	Strawberry Point 4/21/1883	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
57	5/18/83	John Childers Male, White	77y 4m 8d Laborer	5/8/1883 11 p.m.	Widower	American Kentucky	18 yrs	Strawberry Point General debility with sacral abcess	[blank] was prostrated 3 weeks	Strawberry Point Ia 5/9/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa

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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
58	5/18/83	Infant Sargent Male, White	1d	5/11/1883 7 a.m.	Single	American Iowa	[blank]	Lodomillo unknown	[blank] a few hours	Lodomillo Iowa 5/11/83	Emory H. Sargent Jr Lodomillo Iowa
59	3/22/83	George F. Draper Male, White	55y Laborer	2/12/1883 1:45 p.m.	Married	American N.Y.	[blank]	Putnam Fayette Co Iowa Typhoid Pneumonia	[blank] 7 days	Strawberry Point 2/14/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
60	3/22/83	Elizabeth Lake * Gilchrist Female, White	77y 1m 24d [blank]	3/15/1883 11:45 a.m.	Widow	American Long Island	visiting	Cass Twp Clayton County Iowa Typhoid Pneumonia	[blank] 4 days	Franklin DeKalb County ILL 3/18/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
61	3/22/83	Archie Leffingwell Male, White	2y 2m 18d	3/3/1883 3 p.m.	Single	American Iowa	from birth	Cass Township Iowa Pneumonia	Bilious Recurrant fever about 5 weeks	Reeds cem 3/3/83	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
62	3/22/83	Sidney Robert David Woods Male, White	24y 6m 15d Farmer	2/28/1883 6:20 p.m.	Single	English Iowa	from birth	Sperry Twp Clayton County Iowa Foreign substance in air passages	A General hemorrgie condition in capillaries about a week unknown several months	Volga City 3/2/1883	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
63	6/18/83	Mary Ann Foster Female, White	76y 7m 9d Laborer	5/20/1883 4:45 a.m.	Widow	[blank] Nova Scotia	10 yrs	North McGregor Malignant Fever	failing 1 year blood imparished tempin liver about 1 week	Oakland cemetery [blank]	H. Newell Sill MD Strawberry Point Iowa
64	7/9/83	Jno Clark Male, White	70y [blank]	7/1/- [blank]	Married	[blank] Ireland	25 yrs	Giard Township Congestion of Brain	Peter Nally undertaker	McGregor 7/3/-	Peter Farley J.P. acting coroner Giard Iowa
65	7/11/83	John Henry Behn Male, White	65y 0m 13d Farmer	6/21/1883 2 a.m.	Married	German Germany	[blank]	Farm near Osborne Neuralgia of Heart	[blank] about 1 week	Mederville 6/22/83	J.H. Craig MD Volga City Iowa
66	7/31/83	Catherine Daubenberger Female, White	5y 0m 17d	7/13/1883 11 a.m.	Single	German McGregor	from birth	McGregor Diptheria	[blank] 6 days	Pleasant Grove cemetery 7/14/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Iowa
67	7/31/83	Caroline Daubenberger Female, White	8y 4m 19d	7/7/1883 4 p.m.	Single	German McGregor	from birth	McGregor Diptheria	[blank] 5 days	Prairie du Chien Wis 7/9/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Iowa
68	7/31/83	Amanda Mann Female, White	56y Housewife	7/19/1883 10:30 a.m.	Married	American Ohio	32 yrs	McGregor Cancer of Neck (Scenbus)	[blank] 1 yr	Pleasant Grove cemetery 7/21/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Iowa
69	8/5/83	Theresa Stark Female, White	28y 10m [blank]	7/17/1883 7 a.m.	Married	German Germany	4 days	Guttenberg Iowa Malignant Malaria fever brought from Kentucky	[blank] 9 days	Graveyard 7/15/83 **	Wm Hoffbauer MD Guttenburg Iowa
middle name in index looks more like Sake - death record looks more like Lake *date typed exactly as they appear in death record

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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
70	8/22/83	Leonhard Heine Male, White	53y 0m 10d Druggist	8/17/1883 11:30 p.m.	Married	German Germany	27 yrs	Guttenberg Iowa Dropsy	[blank] 6 mos or more	Guttenberg cemtery 8/19/83	Wm Hoffbauer MD Guttenberg Iowa
71	9/13/83	George Heinrich Walke Male, White	76y 4m Farmer	8/27/1883 6 a.m.	Widower	German Germany	29 yrs	Jefferson Twp Iowa Surrhus Ventriculi	[blank] about 1/2 yr	Ceres cemetery 8/29/83	Wm. Hoffbauer MD Guttenberg Iowa
72	9/10/83	John Peosch Male, White	50y 3m Farmer	9/8/1883 10 a.m.	Married	German Germany	23 [or 25] yrs	Springfield Iowa Degenerative disease of the Gastro Intestinal Glands resulting in complete Anorexia	[blank] minutes	Postville cemetery 9/10/1883	John Shepherd MD Postville Iowa
73	9/11/83	Laura C. Moody Female, White	7m 16d	8/11/1883 [blank]	[blank]	[blank] Mendon twp	[blank]	McGregor Iowa Pneumonia	[blank] 10 days	Clayton City Ia [blank]	W.A. Hall MD McGregor Iowa
74	8/20/83	John Waalk Male, White	54y 11m 21d Farmer	7/29/1883 5:30 a.m.	Widower	German Germany	18 yrs	Monona Iowa Desquamative Nephritis	[blank] 3 yrs	Council Hill cemetery 7/30/83	W.A. Hall MD McGregor Iowa
75	9/22/83	Jacob Worth Male, White	72y Common laborer	9/17/1883 [blank]	Married	[blank] Germany	32 yrs	was found near North McGregor accidental drowning	body delivered to friends	Allamakee Co Ia [blank]	Isaac Matthews JP Coroner McGregor Ia
76	10/10/83	Anna Margareita Oelkers Female, White	50y 0m 15d Housewife	9/1/1883 12 m	Widow	German Germany	25 yrs	Guttenberg Chronic enlargement and Sardaceous degeneration of the Meseler's Glands, Exhaustion	[blank] [blank]	Guttenberg 9/3/83	Hermann J. Schermer MD Guttenberg Iowa
77	10/22/83	Joseph Herman Male, White	64y Laborer	8/19/188- 3 p.m.	Single	Austrian Austria	[blank]	C.C.P.H. Assites	[blank] don't know	Poor farm 8/21/-	S.A. Bass MD Elkader Iowa
78	10/22/83	Christine Schotty Female, White	86y [blank]	9/5/188- 9:30 p.m.	Married	German Germany	30 yrs	C.C.P.H. old age	[blank] [blank]	Clayton Center 9/8-	S.A. Bass MD Elkader Iowa
Report made Oct 1st 1883

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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
1	10/30/83	William E. Frashier Male, White	30 y Farmer	10/-/- 1 a.m.	Married	American [blank]	10 yrs	Guttenberg Iowa a blow struck on the left side of the head with a long handle shovel struck by Henry Kampmeyer	[blank] undertaker Albert Bates	Millville Twp Ia [blank]	G.H. Jacobs J.P. Acting coroner Guttenberg Iowa
2	10/29/83	-- Schott Male, White	10d	10/17/1883 3 p.m.	Single	German McGregor	from birth	McGregor Convulsions	[blank] from birth	Pleasant Grove cemetery 10/18/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Ia
3	11/7/83	Mary Brandt Female, White	61y 0m 17d Housewife	10/31/1883 5:45 a.m.	Married	German Mechlberg	33 yrs	Garnavillo Iowa Heart exhaustion	Gastritis & Pelvic celelulitis, unknown 3 mos	Garnavillo cemetery 11/2/83	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
4	10/27/83	Wilhelmina Schutte Female, White	1m 28d	10/12/1883 6 p.m.	Single	American Read Tp Ia	from birth	Read Twp Clayton Co Ia Cholera Infantum	[blank] 5 days	Clayton Center cemetery 10/14/83	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
5	11/1/83	John Knapp Male, White	84y 2m 5d Farmer	10/11/1883 9 a.m.	Married	[blank] State NY Haversbau	33 yrs	Pleasant Ridge Mendon Twp Gen'l debility arising from old age	[blank] about 8 weeks	Pleasant Ridge cemetery 10/14/83	W.H. Andrews MD North McGregor Iowa
6	10/20/83	John Moir Sen'r Male, White	72y Farmer	11/19/1883 4 a.m.	Married	Scotch Scotland	30 yrs	Springfield Gr Meadow Clayton Co Ia Immediate cause Pneumonitis Primary affection congestion of the brain with convulsions	[blank] 38 days	Postville cemetery 11/20/83	John Shepherd MD Postville Iowa
7	11/8/83	August Leui Male, White	18y Agricultural work	11/6/1883 2:20 a.m.	Single	German [blank]	18 yrs	Grand Meadow Clayton Co Ia Accidental Gunshot by a companion necessitating amputations at the upper third of the thigh from which he never rallied	[blank] about 36 hours	Grand Meadow cemetery 11/8/83	John Shepherd MD Postville Iowa
8	12/20/83	Amelia Orr Female, White	20y 11m 4d housewife	12/4/1883 2 p.m.	Married	German N.Y.	15 yrs	Mendon Twp Clayton Co Ia Puerperal Septicaemia	[blank] 7 days	Giard cemetery 12/6/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Ia
9	12/11/83	Alonis Wolf Male, White	43y Stone mason	11/30/- 5 p.m.	Married	German Vanderz Europe	[illegible]	Farm of J.B. Voss, Jefferson Twp Suicide by hanging with a rope around his neck on a limb of a sugar tree	undertaker Christian Leigen Guttenberg Ia	Guttenberg cemetery 12/3/83	G.H. Jacobs J.P. Acting coroner Guttenberg Iowa
10	1/31/84	Jane Dymond Female, White	60y housewife	1/5/1884 3 p.m.	Widow	[blank] Scotland St. Johnstown	30 yrs	McGregor Iowa Catarrh General	Bronchitis & unstiteal uephrites, 4 weeks several years	McGregor Ia 1/7/84	W.A. Hall MD McGregor Iowa
11	1/10/84	--- Bohen Female, White	about 1 hour	12/9/1883 6 a.m.	[blank]	Irish North McGregor	from birth	North McGregor Iowa Premature birth	[blank] [blank]	Catholic cemetery [illegible] McGregor [blank]	W.H. Andrews MD North McGregor Iowa
12	1/15/84	Henrietta Schultz Female, White	34y 8m [blank]	1/1/1884 3 p.m.	Married	Germany [blank]	[blank]	McGregor Iowa Nepherine	Abscess of hip 2 yrs	McGregor Iowa [blank]	W.A. Hall MD McGregor Iowa

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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
13	[blank]	John Werges Male, White	5y	8/23/1883 6:30 a.m.	Single	[blank] Clayton Co Ia	[blank]	Clayton Twp Clayton Co Ia Meningitis	Scarlet fever 6 days	Garnavillo Clayton Co Ia 8/25/83	E.A. Sherman MD National Iowa
14	[blank]	Andrew Yunkman Male, White	6m 27d	8/17/1883 9:45 p.m.	Single	[blank] National Ia	[blank]	National Clayton Co Ia Meningitis	[blank] 3 days	National 8/19/83	E.A. Sherman MD National Iowa
15	[blank]	Louisa Bierhaum Female, White	15y	7/29/1883 1 p.m	Single	[blank] Clayton Co Ia	from birth	Clayton Twp Clayton Co Ia Meningitis	[blank] 4 days	Garnavillo Clayton Co Ia 7/31/83	E.A. Sherman MD National Iowa
16	[blank]	Sophia Bierbaum Female, White	24y [blank]	7/13/1883 [blank]	Single	[blank] Clayton Co Ia	[blank]	Clayton Twp Clayton Co Ia Phithis Pulmanalis	[blank] 1 year	Garnavillo 7/15/83	E.A. Sherman MD National Iowa
17	[blank]	Henry Meyers Male, White	20y Farmer	1/16/1884 8 p.m.	Single	[blank] Clayton Co Ia	20 yrs	Farmersburg Tp Clayton Co Ia Typhoid Fever	[blank] 6 days	[blank]	E.A. Sherman MD National Iowa
18	1/30/84	Katie Klatzbock Female, [blank]	5m	1/14/1884 7 p.m.		German Giard Tp Clayton Co Ia	[blank]	Giard Twp Scarletina Augia	Diptheria 3 or 4 days 10 or 12 days	Giard cemetery 1/16/84	O.E. Nichols MD Giard Iowa
19	1/30/84	Freddie Klatzbock Male, [blank]	2y	12/29/1884 ** midnight 12 pm		German Giard Tp Ia	2 yrs	Giard Twp Scarletina Auginosa swpt	Convulsions 12 to 14 hours	Giard cemetery 1/1/84	O.E. Nichols MD Giard Iowa
20	2/3/84	Nellie Elizabeth Draum Female, White	1½ hours	1/9/1884 5 a.m.	Single	American [blank]	from birth	North McGregor Iowa Prenatal cold; never breathed free and finally death occured by chocking	[blank] 1 day	Pleasant Ridge cemetery 1/10/1884	W.H. Andrews MD North McGregor Iowa
21	2/3/84	Harry Claudius Manly Male, White	1m 8d	1/11/1884 9 p.m.	Single	American North McGregor	from birth	North McGregor Iowa Convulsions caused by indigestion	[blank] about 1 month	South McGregor Ia 1/12/84	W.H. Andrews MD North McGregor Iowa
22	1/31/84	J.N. Sturtevant * Male, White	65y Farmer	1/7/1884 1 p.m.	Widower	American [blank]	[blank]	Clayton Co Poor House Consumption	[blank] [blank]	C.C. P. farm 1/9/84	F.M. Moor MD Elkader Iowa
23	1/31/84	Michael Kernes Male, White	74y Laborer	11/23/1883 10:30 a.m.	Widower	Ireland [blank]	[blank]	Clayton Co Poor House Paralasis	[blank] 2 mo	Elkader 11/25/84**	F.M. Moor MD Elkader Iowa
24	2/12/84	Charles Tryon Male, White	27y Brakeman	1/25/1884 3 a.m.	Single	American [blank]	3 mo	McGregor Iowa Ran over by Train	undertaker Walles Bro	McGregor 1/26/84	Isaac Matthews JP acting coroner McGregor Iowa
transcriber is not certain of spelling of surname could also be Sturlevarit or Sturtevaut *date typed exactly as in death record

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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
25	10/30/83	William E. Frashier Male, White	30y Farmer	10/-/- 1 a.m.	Married	American [blank]	10 yrs	Guttenberg Iowa a blow struck on the left side of the head with a long handle shovel struck by Henry Kampmeyer	undertaker Albert Bates	Millville Twp Iowa [blank]	G.H. Jacobs J.P. Acting coroner Guttenberg Iowa
26	10/29/83	-- ,Schott Male, White	10d	10/17/1883 3 p.m.	Single	German McGregor	from birth	McGregor Convulsions	[blank] from birth	Pleasant Grove cemetery 10/18/83	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Ia
27	11/7/83	Mary Brandt Female, White	61y 17d Housewife	10/31/1883 5:45 a.m.	Married	German Meckelberg	33 trs	Garnavillo Iowa Heart Exhaustion about 3 mos	Gastritis and Pelvic Cellulitis unknown	Garnavillo cemetery 11/2/83	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
28	10/27/83	Wilhelmine Schutte Female, White	1m 28d	10/12/1883 6 p.m.	Single	American Read Tp	from birth	Read Tp Clayton Co Iowa Cholera Infantum	[blank] 5 days	Clayton Center cemetery 10/14/83	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
25	2/3/84	Chas W. Baug Male, White	64y Music teacher	1/4/1884 3 a.m.	Single	[blank] Germany	[blank]	Clayton Co Insane Asylum Old age and General debility	undertaker H.C Grolewohl	C.C.P.Farm 1/6/84	[blank]
26	1/31/84	Finley Jones Male, White	80y Laborer	1/15/1884 2 a.m.	Widower	American [blank]	[blank]	Clayton Co Poor House Old age	[blank] [blank]	Clayton Co Poor Farm [blank]	F.M. Moore MD Elkader Iowa
27	2/2/84	Johanna Johnson Female, White	59y 11m 5d Housewife	1/5/1884 2 a.m.	Married	Swede Sweden	2 yrs	Mendon Twp Clayton Co Supposed to be some form of Heart Disease	Malarial fever Could not learn	Norwegian cemetery Mendon Twp [blank]	H.H. Clark MD McGregor
28	2/27/83*	Thomas Davidson Male, White	85y 1m 25d Farmer	2/7/1884 9 p.m.	Widower	American Penn	5 yrs	Clayton Co Iowa Prostatic inflamation	Pneumonia 2 weeks Several years	McGregor Ia 2/9/84	W.A. Hall MD McGregor Iowa
29	2/15/84	Jochiam Muller Male, White	45y Laborer	2/15/1884 9 a.m.	Single	German Germany	about 12 yr	Littleport Gunshot wound & exposure to extreme cold	[blank] [blank]	body delivered to twp [illegible]	J.W. Cain MD Coroner Strawberry Point Iowa
30	2/18/84	William Calaway Male, White	46y Farmer	2/18/1884 6 a.m.	Married	U.S. [blank]	[blank]	John Nadings house Cox Creek Twp Compression of brain caused by Ossous tumor	[blank] [blank]	delivered to friends	J.W. Cain MD Coroner Strawberry Point Iowa
31	3/2/84	Albert Alley Male, White	40y Farmer	3/2/1884 4 p.m.	Married	American [blank]	[blank]	Cass Twp Heart disease	[blank] [blank]	delivered to friends	J.W. Cain MD Coroner Strawberry Point Iowa
32	3/11/84	Joseph Kirch Male, White	32y 9m 20d Saloon Keeper & Barber	2/29/1884 8 a.m.	Married	German Bodenhein	[blank]	Guttenberg Iowa Nephritis Interstitiatis Chronica asthemia Paralysis cordis	Acute endocarditis and Pericarditis 1 year	Guttenberg Iowa 3/2/84	H.J. Sch ----- [surname illegible] MD Guttenberg Iowa
Transcription Notes: The first column of page 36 is numbered exactly as it appears on the record and the first 4 records on this page also appear on page 34. *date typed exactly as in death record

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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
33	2/27/84	Cora McNeth Female, White	2y 9m Child	2/1/1884 1 a.m.	Single	[blank] Sperry Tp	from birth	Sperry Twp Scalded	[blank] 12 days	Sperry Twp near Volga City Ia [blank]	J.H. Craig MD Volga Iowa
34	2/12/84	Bernard Hanson Male, White	82y None	3/3/1884 [blank]	Widower	[blank] Germany	33 yrs	Cox Creek Iowa Dropsy	[blank] about 2 weeks	Independence Iowa 3/5/84	S.N. Bixby MD Strawberry Point Iowa
35	3/11/84	Thomas Robinson Male, White	80y 6m 28d Farmer	3/7/1884 6:50	[blank]	[blank] Canada	28 yrs	Richland Twp Delaware Co Ia Apoplexia Cerebri	[blank] 38 hours	Brush Creek 2/9/84	A. Leyh MD Strawberry Point Iowa
36	[blank]	Thos Victoria Male, White	1/4800 day	2/28/1884 [blank]	Single	American [blank]	1/4800 part of a day	Cox Creek Twp unknown	[blank] [blank]	[blank] [blank]	J.H. Craig MD Volga Iowa
37	3/12/84	Mary McNeil Female, White	31y Domestic	3/10/1884 4:30 p.m.	Married	Irish Petsburg Pa	about 13 yr	Grand Meadow Twp Clayton Co Ia Puerperal Fever	[blank] 8 days	Clermont cemetery 3/12/84	John Shepherd MD Postville Iowa
38	3/25/84	Elizabeth Good Female, White	77y Housewife	2/8/1884 12 a.m.	Married	English Workshot Notte	8 yrs	Millville Twp Pneumonia	[blank] 3 days	Colesburg 2/12/1884	C.A. Tobie MD Colesburg Iowa
39	3/25/84	Dan Hagerty Male, White	49y 9m Farmer	3/24/1884 9 p.m.	Married	Irish County of Carry Ireland	34 yrs	Near city of McGregor Mendon Tp Clayton Co Ia Ran over by a train of cars accidently on CM&St Paul RR	undertakers Waller Bro	McGregor Iowa 3/26/84	J.L. Hagensick JP acting coroner McGregor Iowa
40	1/21/84	Catharine Cunningham Female, White	46y 9m 4d Housewife	10/19/1883 3 p.m.	Married	Irish Kiekkenny Co Ireland	26 yrs	Read Tp Clayton Co Iowa Pihthisis Pulmonotis	[blank] about 1 year	Garnavillo Catholic cemetery 10/21/84 *	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
41	3/3/84	Lena L. Meyer Female, White	20y None	2/13/1884 11 p.m.	Single	American Garnavillo Iowa	from birth	Garnavillo Iowa Dropsy	[blank] [blank]	Garnavillo cemetery Ia 2/17/84	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
42	4/8/84	Anna Auer Female, White	70y 11m Housewife	2/28/1884 5 a.m.	Married	Germany Bavaria	28 yrs	Garnavillo Tp Clayton Co Iowa Paralysis Comphet	[blank] unknown	Catholic cemetery Garnavillo 3/1/84	W.H. Boals MD Garnavillo Iowa
43	4/21/84	Nicholas Rafferty Male, White	4y 5m 24d	4/19/1884 5:30 p.m.	Single	Irish Fayette Co Ia	from birth	Grand Meadow Twp Clayton Co Iowa Tubuculous Meningitis	[blank] 19 days	Clermont cemetery 4/21/84	John Shepherd MD Postville Iowa
44	3/11/84	Albert Alley Male, White	[blank] Farmer	3/2/1884 6 p.m.	Married	[blank] [blank]	[blank]	Strawberry Point Iowa Heart Disease	[blank] 4 hours	Strawberry Point 5/4/84	J.J. Lindsey MD Strawberry Point Iowa
*date typed exactly as in death record

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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
45	5/7/84	Sebastian Eckart * Male, White	45y 3m 4d Blacksmith	5/4/1884 11 a.m.	Married	German Prussia	26 yrs	Guttenberg Iowa Fracture of the skull & cerebral hemmorrage due to a fall down stairs. Paralysis of the heart. Nature of the accident unknown.	[blank] 6 hours	Guttenberg Iowa 5/6/84	Herman J. Schneider MD Guttenberg Iowa
46	5/10/84	Emmey Goslin Female, White	30y [blank]	5/10/1884 4:00	Single	American [blank]	[blank]	Clayton County Insane Asylum Epilepsy	[blank] [blank]	Clayton Co Poor Farm 5/10/84	[blank]
47	4/30/84	Thomas Buckley Male, White	22y 9m 22d Brakeman	4/15/1884 [blank]	Single	Irish Giard Tp	from birth	Giard Twp Clayton Co Iowa Pulmonary Haemorhage	[blank] 2 mos	Catholic cemetery McGregor 4/17/84	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Iowa
48	4/30/84	Henry Davis Male, White	80y 11m 6d Tanner	3/31/1884 [blank]	Married	American Madison Conn	24 yrs	McGregor Pleuro Pneumonia	[blank] 6 days	Pleasant Grove cemetery [blank]	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Iowa
49	3/30/84	Prudie Kingsley Female, White	17y 9m 2d School Girl	3/17/1884 5 a.m.	Single	American Giard Tp	from birth	Giard Twp Clayton Co Iowa Septicaemia	[blank] 3 weeks	Council Hill cemetery 3/19/84	H.H. Clark MD McGregor Iowa
50	[blank]	Berthia Halfhill Female, White	2y 3m	5/4/1884 [blank]	Single	[blank] Wood center	[blank]	Wood center Clayton Co Ia Diptheria	[blank] 4 days	Edgewood 5/5/84	J.W. Rue MD Greeley Del Co Ia
51	5/21/84	Sebastian Eckart * Male, White	45y 3m - Blacksmith	5/4/1884 10 a.m.	Married	German Prussia	26 yrs	Guttenberg Iowa Braking the skull by falling down stairs	[blank] [blank]	Guttenberg Iowa 5/6/84	G.H. Jacobs J.P. acting coroner Guttenberg Iowa
52	6/2/84	Therese Hofmann Female, White	58y 7m 2d Housewife	3/11/1884 12 a.m.	Married	Austrian Wizkaherg **	12 yrs	Guttenberg Clayton co Ia Pneumonia Chronica, asthemia Paralysis Cordis	[blank] 7 week	Guttenberg Iowa 3/14/1884	Herman J. Schneider MD Guttenberg Iowa
53	5/2/84	Morris O. Barnes Male, White	59y Merchant	5/20/1884 8:15 a.m.	Married	American Chat co N.Y.	28 yrs	Strawberry Point Iowa Primare Brigh Kidney disease	[blank] 6 mos	Strawberry Point Ia 5/22/84	A. Leyh MD Strawberry Point Ia
54	6/4/84	Samuel Conrad Male, [blank]	71y 1m 18d Retired Farmer	5/20/1884 3 a.m.	Married	American Tompkins co NY	20 yrs	Edgewood Clayton Co Iowa Chronic Rheumatism & Prostatic disease	Received a fall 2/5/84 fracturing Radius and infected fracture of neck of femur 4 mo	Edgewood cemetery Del co. Ia 6/1/84	H.H. Newman MD Edgewood Iowa
55	5/20/84	August Uschall Male, White	69y 7m 18d Wagon Maker	4/20/1884 10½ pm	Married	German Germany	31 yrs	Guttenberg Clayton Co Iowa Gastric remittent fever	[blank] 4 weeks	Guttenberg 4/22/84	Wm. Hoffbauer MD Guttenberg Iowa
56	6/16/84	Herman Blumhagen Male, White	4y 8m 24d none	6/3/1884 9:00 p.m.	Single	German Germany	9 mo	Grand Meadow Tp Clayton co Ia Chronic Pneumonitis with Pulmonary Haemorrhage	Ascites since Nov 15/1883	Postville cemetery 6/5/84	Frederick Pecker MD Clermont Fayette Co Ia
Record 45 & 51 appear to be nearly identical records; apparently the doctor reported it and the acting coroner also made a report *place of birth may be Nizkaherg, difficult to make out the writing

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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
57	6/26/84	John Courtwright Male, White	89y 9m Laborer	5/27/8884 1 p.m.	Single	American [blank]	40 yrs	Clayton County Poor House Old age	[blank] [blank]	Clayton Co Paupers Field at Poor Farm [blank]	F.M. Moor MD Elkader Iowa
58	6/10/84	Norman Hamilton Male, White	53y 5m 1d Farmer	6/10/1884 [blank]	Married	American New York C	30yrs	Farmersburg Tp Suicide by hanging	body delivered to friends	[blank]	J.W. Cain Coroner Elkader Iowa
59	7/29/84	Edward Steel Male, White	18y 10m [blank]	6/29/1884 3 p.m	Single	American [blank]	[blank]	Littleport Concussion of Brain?	body delivered to friends	Edgewood	J.W. Cain Coroner Elkader Iowa
60	1884	John Stobl Male, White	23y Farmer	7/17/1884 7:30 p.m.	Single	German Clayton Co	23 yrs	Boardman Tp Typhoid fever	with Rheumatism 2 weeks 3 mos	Mederville 7/30	S.A. Bass MD Elkader Iowa
61	7/25/84	Mrs. Bridget Rylie Female, White	74y [blank]	6/28/1884 8:15 a.m.	Widow	Ireland [blank]	[blank]	C.C. P. House Heart disease	[blank] [blank]	Elkader Catholic cemetery [blank]	F.M. Moor MD Elkader Iowa
62	7/31/84	P.M. White Male, White	68y [blank]	7/3/1884 12:30 a.m.	Widower	American [blank]	[blank]	C.C.P. House Paralysis	[blank] [blank]	Farmersburg cemetery 7/4/84	F.M. Moore MD Elkader Iowa
63	7/31/84	Nathan Springer Male, White	75y Farmer	7/21/1884 3 p.m.	Married	American [blank]	[blank]	C.C.P. House Paralysis	[blank] [blank]	C.C.P.F. 7/22/84	F.M. Moor MD Elkader Iowa
64	8/7/84	Theodore Hagerman Male, White	28y Farmer	8/5/1884 about 2:30 p.m.	Single	German Volga Tp Clayton Co Ia	from birth	Elk Tp Suicide by shooting in forehead	body delivered to friends	Volga Tp [blank]	J.W. Cain MD Coroner Elkader Iowa
65	8/8/84	Anna Elizabeth Brandt Female, White	86y [blank]	7/17/1884 [blank]	Married	Germany Germany	since 1858	Jefferson Twp near Guttenberg Marcismus senilis	[blank] [blank]	Guttenberg graveyard 7/19/84	Wm Hoffbauer MD Guttenberg Ia
66	8/8/84	Arthur John Wolter Male, White	1y 4m 17d [blank]	7/14/1884 8½ pm		[blank] Benton Co Minn	10 days	Ceres P.O. Convulsions	[blank] Brain fever	Guttenberg catholic graveyard 7/17/84	Wm Hoffbauer MD Guttenberg Ia
67	8/21/84	George Ne-ser * Male, White	77y 9m Farmer	8/21/1884 10 a.m.	Widower	German Germany	28 yrs	Volga Tp Old age	body delivered to friends	[blank] [blank]	J.W. Cain Coroner Elkader Iowa
68	9/18/84	Louis Wm Tangeman Male, White	6m 5d	8/15/1884 5 a.m.		German Garnavillo Ia	since birth	Garnavillo Clayton Co Cholera Infantum	[blank] 48 hours	New cemetery Garnavillo [blank]	Mrs. M.B. Sharp Garnavillo Iowa
*surname may be Nesser or Nehser or something else, difficult to make out the writing due to an ink blot on the 3rd letter

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-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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