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1860 Mortality Schedule
Gumm District, Baldwin County, GA
Name Age Sex Color Free or Slave Married or Widowed Place of Birth Month
Died		 Occupation Cause of Death Number Days Ill
1. Infant 1 mo M B Slave - Ga June - Unknown 1 1/2 days
2. Lenora 22 F B Slave - GA Nov Farm Laborer Typhoid Fever 21 days
2. Infant 1 mo M - - - GA Apr - Spasms Sudden
4. John T. Grimes 31 M - - - GA May - Dyarrhoea 17 days
5. James L. Grimes 23 M - - - GA Oct Farm Laborer Stabbing Sudden
6. Infant 3 mos M M Slave - GA Dec - Unknown 3 days
7. Sarah Gumm 29 F - - Married GA Jan - Consumption 10 mons
8. Andron D Harper 1 M - - - GA Aug - Teething 18 days
Remarks: No. 5 Died from the effects of stab in the left breast near the heart made by parties unknown. A negro was tried for the murder but the jury returned a Verdict of Not Guilty. This District is remarkable for it's Springs of pure cold water. I may also add for the number and size of it's Rattle Snakes. Non call for information in regard to Disease among stock. "Hog Cholera" has prevailed to a great extent in this and Salem District.
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1860 Mortality Schedule
Salem District, Baldwin County, GA
Name Age Sex Color Free
or
Slave		 Married 
or Widowed		 Place of  Birth Month Died Occup. Cause of Death Number
Days Ill
1. Mary Moss 45 F B Free Married GA Dec Farm Laborer Pneumonia 8 days
2. Ellen Simpson 61F - - - Married GA Oct - Constipation of Bowels 6 days
3. Kane 7 mos M M Slave - GA May - Unknown 3 days
4. Infant 1 mo M - - - GA May - Scarlet Fever 14 days
5. Jessee Brundage 16 M - - - GA - Student Pneumona 15 days
6. Infant 1 mo M B Slave - GA - - Hives 3 days
7. Adam 8 mos M B Slave - GA - - Dyarrhoea 3 mos
8. John L. Robinson 37 M - - - GA - Farmer Inflam. of Lungs 3 yrs.
9. Jessee Crooms 29 M - - - GA - Farmer Concussion of Brain Sudden
10. William Tompkins 16 M - - - GA - Farm Laborr Fall of Tree Concussion Sudden
11. Joshua 32 M B Slave - GA - Field Hand Typhoid Pneumonia 9 days
12. Bill Anderson 4 M B Slave - GA - - Whooping Cough 30 days
14. Tabitha A. Kirkpatrick 47 F - - Married NC - - Consumption 7 years
14. Anderson 17 M B Slave - GA - Field Hand Stabbing ( to the heart) Sudden
15. Catherine 6 mos F B Slave - GA - - Spasms 2 days
16. Infant 1 mo F B Slave - GA - - Hookworm Sudden
17. Infant 1 M B Slave - GA - - Whooping Cough 21 days
18.  Banks 3 mos M B Slave - GA - - Accidentaly Suffocated Sudden
19. Racher 2 mos M B Slave - GA - - Whooping Cough 20 days
20. Legan 4 mos M B Slave - GA - - Accidentaly Suffocated Sudden
21. Sam 1 mo M B Slave - GA - - Pneumonia 4 days
22. Infant 2 mos M B Slave - GA - - Dyarrhoea 23 days
23. Jessee Daniel 65 M - - Married GA May Planter Liver complaint 18 mons
24. Infant 3 mos F B Slave - GA Feb - Whooping Cough 30 days
25. Emmet Singleton 11 mos M - - - GA May - Cholera Infantum 14 days
Remarks: No. 9 died from the effects of blow on the skull with a common Plantation Hoe, in a fight. No. 14 died from the effects a stab given by another slave in a fight. No. 10. Died from the effects of the fall of a tree crushing his skull and killing him instantly. Pneumonia has prevailed  to a limited extent. The Geology of the district very similar to that of Gumm's District. It is of the Primary formation, granite substratum, very much broken, fine springs and very healthy.
 

Source: United States. Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880 (formerly in the custody of the Daughters of the American Revolution), and Related Indexes, 1850-1880. T655, 30 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.

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