1873 Yellow Fever Deaths in Memphis, Tennessee

98 Deaths in 48 Hours – 82 from Yellow Fever – 16 Unknown and Other Causes.
Only 42 Deaths in the Last 24 Hours – 36 of these Yellow Fever – Other Causes, 6.

From Noon 11 October 1873 to Noon 12 October 1873

Yellow Fever

Matilda Wendland, age 20 Martha Hutchinson, age 28
Lena Brosen, age 18 Gaill C. Dougall, age 31
John Brekhem M. Peres, age 16
Hannah Goldham, age 28 Ella McDonough, age 19
Mary Wenin, age 11 Miss M. Conners, age 16
J. F. Lanford, age 26 Arthur Howe, age 32
Emma Miner, age 5 Ludwig Goldstein, age 38
Mrs Arnold Mary E. Gilmore, age 16
Mr Rogers, age 50 Minnie Hughes, colored, age 16
infant child of Bellows, age 10 days L. S. Heston, age 30
Geo. A. Levasseur, age 27 Miss Schall, age 20
Pat Fitz, age 25 Mrs A. F. Heuer, age 50
Mrs Reagin, age 55 Adeline Scheffer, age 41
Elizabeth Winters, age 79 Kate Grady, age 38
Nora Sullivan, age 24 Mrs Mary Nelson, age 19
Mary Mils, age 27 John O’Bryan, age 16
John Besenberg, age 55 Ed. Pindergrast, age 30
Leopold Moras, age 35 A. Mahler, age 49
Chas. Reeves, age 50 Mrs I. Stewart, age 27
John Wise, age 36 John Kluick, age 13
Minnie Trimble, age 9 Emma Thrall, age 16
J. H. Barbee, age 38 Henry Peterson, age 25
John Blanvout, age 25 John Aratta, age 25

Other Causes

John Johnson, colored, age 35, congestion
Matilda Otra, colored, age 75, unknown
Michael Ryan, age 2, teething
infant child of Mary Freeman, colored, age 1 day, unknown
Bettie Nolan, age 16, unknown
Walter G. Schafer, age 8 months, whooping cough
Chas. Bruner, age 12, unknown
Louis Riegel, age 3, chills and fever
Catherine McComey, age 2, debility
Eliza Spence, colored, unknown

Abstract prepared by Genealogy-Quest.com from “Yellow Fever” Public Ledger, Memphis, TN, 13 October 1873, 2.

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