Connecticut
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Death Notices

A female supposed dead, was nearly buried alive. Animation fortunately returned before the coffin was closed. Such cases seldom happen, but the horror they excite, leads every one to wish, that such severed regulations for the examination of corpses should be established that it could never happen.
The North American Review, May 1815 {Contrib. by Kim Torp}
Illinois Territory - Hon. Stanley Griswold, one of the Judges, formerly of Connecticut. The North American Review, Nov 1815 {Contrib. by Kim Torp}
Peter Lung has been condemned to be hung for the murder of his wife. The North American Review, Nov 1815 {Contrib. by Kim Torp}
During the year 1859, 11,259 births occurred in the state of Connecticut, a decrease of 40 from the year 1858; 98 illegitimate and 107 plurality births were reported.  The number of marriages was 3,778, an increase of 41 from 1858 of 85; males, 3,080, females 3,089; 1,066 died upwards of 70 years of age; 79 upwards of 90 years, and four completed a century.  Consumption carried off 1,058; pneumonia, 347; typhus fever, 307; scarlatina, 275; apoplexy, 127, et.
(The Illinois State Democrat - May 23, 1860)
Douglass' Monthly, Rochester N.Y.,
Sept. 1860

Dr. C. Van Renselaer Creed, a colored physician of New Haven, Conn., has recently removed an unusually large cancer tumor from  the womb of a white lady of that city, who is now doing very well. Dr. Creed is called upon almost daily to perform some difficult surgical operation.
 - (contributed by: Candi H. -2008)

 

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