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These include long listings of deaths from various old newspapers. While I prefer to add each one individually to the Deaths pages, I don't always have time! You will find the individuals listed in the Index of Names.

NOTE: I will also add here references to deaths where no names are given. 

New Section! Names from A History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

New Orleans Deaths, 1913 Names not yet indexed, but surnames include the following: SELPH, CHILDRESS, LORIVENIER, IRION, GARVEY, GORDON, GUION, RINGE, ERNEST, BOYER, WILLIAMS, PORCE, GALL, JONES, AUBERT, LUCY, KING, LEBERT, TAYLOR, CUNNINGHAM, LADY

Deadly Mine Explosion in Columbiana County, OH, 1881    LOGAN, MEEHAN, SMITH, CROUCH, HALEY

Former Slave Brister WARRICK Executed for St. Louis Murders, 1846    STANLY

Casualty Lists from a Skirmish Between General WAYNE's Detachment and the British Army, Green Springs, Virginia, 1781
Now indexed! Surnames include the following: WAYNE, GALVAN, STEWART, BUTLER, HAMPTON, WILLIS, OGDEN, McPHERSON, SAVAGE, DUFFY, VANLEAR, DOYLE, FINNEY, MONTGOMERY, STAKE, McCLELLAN, PIERCY, FELTMAN, WHITE, HERBERT, CROSBY, BARBER, THOMSON

Dallas-Fort Worth Area Sportsmen Killed by Indians, Hillsboro, TX, 1879    CARNES

Marine Disasters & Loss of Life, 1866

Casualties Previously Listed as Wounded, Now Reported Dead, Ireland, WWI, 1917  LAWRENCE, BORROW, BUSSELL, LYONS

Half-Breed Thomas PIERRE Sought for Stevens County Murder, WA Territory, 1874    FERRY, GRANT

Tragic Loss of the Steamer Independence, en route to San Francisco, 1853
Lots of names of passengers from Eastern and Western states; not yet indexed.

Did Captain DISNEY Pick up a Fugitive? 1853    HILL, GILL

Galveston Deaths This Week, 1893 Not yet indexed, but surnames include: CLIFFORD, UNGER, WILKIE, McNALLY, SMITH, PERUL, COLE

New Orleans Deaths, 1912 names not yet indexed, but surnames include the following: REID, WALSH, ASHLEY, BONVILLIAN, DUSAN, DOMINGO, CONRAD, GIROD, MITCHELL, BECKNELL, WILLIAMS, HALL, DUROY, GENO, SCHMITT, GILL, FABARES, THEDY

Unidentified Man Among Dead in Quadruple Murder in Massachusetts, 1912

New Orleans Deaths, 1912   Not yet indexed; surnames include the following: GUDD, DUNCAN, GUYT, BERGE, SENCERE, MARTIN, HACKINGER, LECELIER, EDWARDS, TAYLOR, JONES, LAGARDE, DOYLE, LAWRENCE

Memphis Mortuary Report, 1877 Now indexed! Surnames include: McCULLERS, LINK, HART, FAIRES, KELLY, BACKER, PHILIPS, CLARKE, SHARKEY, SHEPPARD, WOODS, WHITE, GIBSON, GEORGE, GOODLOW, FAULKNER

VAN ARSDALE, ? Murder... I don't know if this is the name of the murderer or the murderee.

San Antonio Burial Permits, Reported November 24, 1918. Now indexed!  Surnames include:  RODRIGUEZ, BOYD, TATE, FAZ, EMILIEN, LOPEZ, CASTELINAS, EUEN, BAUER, McWILLIAMS, CARVER, MAJEWSKI, ALVARADO, GONZALES

The Shipwreck of the Brig Hector, John CUNNING, Master, 1832

1912: New Orleans Deaths Reported  February 22,  Names now  indexed!

10 Casualties Reported from NY, 1813

New Orleans Deaths, January 3, 1912

Five Drown at Traverse Bay, Michigan, 1887 COLE, TRIP, STARK, WISE

Two Unidentified Airmen Killed Near Morristown, NJ, 1920

New Orleans Deaths, January 11, 1912  

Three Deaths Reported in The Eastern Argus, 1828

Tennessee Dead at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

New Orleans Deaths, February 27, 1912

New Orleans, Louisiana Deaths Reported February 27, 1912.   Includes two Mississippi residents.

Confederate Dead at Iuka, Mississippi 

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