Mattoon Death Register
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST
This is transcribed by your host (Kim Torp) from original microfilmed documents. These are the same documents
that the IRAD used to put together the Mattoon Death Register Index on their website. However, there are some
important exceptions. First, the records which I transcribed are only from 1 to 1530. The remainder are on another
roll of microfilm which I have not as yet ordered. Secondly, there are over 500 extra records from 1902-1903 contained
here which are not on the
IRAD's index. The extra records appeared to be strictly from Coles County's recordkeeping and were much less detailed
than the official death certificates the state required. I have notated these extra records with an (a) after the certificate number to avoid
duplicating numbers. If you try and write away for the certificate from the IRAD or Coles County, DO NOT include
the (a) after the number. Truthfully, I'm not sure whether the IRAD has access to the extra 500 records or not.
As always with genealogical transcriptions, you are advised to check with the original document yourself. DO NOT
assume that I have transcribed this with 100% accuracy. I have noted my questions with a (?). Some of the original documents had question
marks in them and I have tried to note this with a (sic) Original spellings were maintained, even when obviously wrong. Also, be aware that there
is more information for "Physician/Informant" on the record which I did not start transcribing until
the 1902's. Since the roll was wound backwards, I started transcribing from the latest down to the earliest and
in the later years, the doctor or the undertaker was the one who signed the certificate. Trying to save myself
some time and finger cramping, I did not think it was necessary to copy the doctor's/undertaker's name. Unfortunately,
I realized a little more than 3/4 of the way through transcribing that they occasionally put an "informant"
in the space rather than a doctor's name, and the informant was usually a family member. Being on a time schedule,
there was no way I could go back through and re-enter the information. Sorry. But that just gives you a reason
to obtain the microfilm and check the information for yourself, which you should do anyway.
This microfilm may be bought or rented from Heritage Quest, product # V141-81 - "Illinois County Records"
or viewed at the IRAD in Charleston, IL under the name "Mattoon Death Register".
HAPPY HUNTING!
-- J -- Surnames
| No. of Record | Name | Color | Sex | Conjugal Condition | Date of Death | Date of Birth | Age | Occupation | POB | POB of Father | POB of Mother | Disease or Cause of Death | Duration | Place of Death | Late Residence - Length of Residence (in city or town) | Undertaker | Place of Interment | Date of Certificate | Physician or Informant | |
| 693 | Ernst Ellsworth | Jackson | W | M | M | Apr 17 1906 | 36y, 5m | engineer locomotive | Indiana | apoplexy | 49 hrs | 1021 Edgar | D.S. Campbell | Holton, Indiana | Apr 17 1906 | |||||
| 67 | Howell | Jackson | B | M | S | May 6 1900 | laborer | knife wound w/conrib cause of gun shot wound | instant | 2300 N. Railroad, 5th ward | Mattoon. 2 or 3 yrs | Schlicher Bros. | Dodge Grove Cem | May 8 1900 | ||||||
| 930 | Agnes E. | Jam | W | F | M | Mar 2 1907 | 37y, 5m | Illinois | acute peritonitis | 1 yr | 1712 Champaign St | D.S. Campbell | - | Mar 2 1907 | ||||||
| 149(a) | Albert | James | Dec 3 1902 | heart disease | ||||||||||||||||
| 1314 | Ethel Ora | James | W | F | S | Sep 24 1908 | 1y, 7mo | Bushton, IL | meningitis w/contrib cause of summer diarhea | 6 days | Clifford Fry | Mattoon, IL | Sept 23 1908 | |||||||
| 448(a) | Infant of Zada & Oscar | James | Sep 12 1903 | still birth | ||||||||||||||||
| 1007 | Mrs. Lillie | James | W | F | M | Jun 8 1907 | housewife | Illinois | exothalime of Goitre | 1 yr | Mattoon | D.S. Campbell | Dodge Grove Cem | Jun 29 1907 | ||||||
| 5(a) | Harriett A. | Jamison | Jan 3 1902 | chronic bronchitis | ||||||||||||||||
| 1520 | Cleo B. | Jane | W | F | S | Nov 20 1909 | 5 | Illinois | diptheria | 2712 DeWitt Ave | E.P. Thomas | Cooks Mill Cem | Nov 23 1909 | |||||||
| 1038 | Raymond R. | Janis (Janes?) | W | M | S | Aug 7 1907 | 16y, 3 m | farmer | Illinois | accidental drowing in 7th Aug 1907 in Okaw River, Coles Co, IL 1/2 mile below Jackson Park | Okaw twp | E.P. Thomas | Zion Church | Aug 8 1907 | ||||||
| 1191 | Cowred H. | Jann (Jaun?) | W | M | W | Feb 24 1908 | 48y, 4m | machinist | Germany | pneumonia fever | 10 days | M.E. Hospital | D.S. Campbell | Calvary Cemetery | Feb 25 1908 | |||||
| 1094 | Harry Lee | Jarrett | W | M | M | Sep 24 1907 | - | Railroad ticket agent | Indiana | Meningitis cerebral | 6 days | Mattoon | D.S. Campbell | Humbolt, IL | Sep 27 1907 | |||||
| 961 | Thelma | Jarvis | W | F | S | May 4 1907 | 6y, 7d | none | none given | ulceration & perforation of bowel | Kalamazoo, Mich | D.S. Campbell | Dodge Grove Cem | - | ||||||
| 981 | Thelma | Jarvis | W | F | S | May 4 1907 | 6y, 0m, 7d | ? & perforation of bowels | Kalamazoo, Michigan | D.S. Campbell | Mattoon | My 4 1907 | ||||||||
| 1060 | Fred | Jeager | W | M | M | Aug 7 1907 | 77 | merchant | Germany | chronic nephritis | 1 yr 5 mo | 2705 Prairie | D.S. Campbell | Sigel, IL | Sep 3 1907 | |||||
| 1424 | Sarah | Jefferson | W | F | W | May 3 1909 | 89 | housewife | fractured femur w/contrib cause of senility | 2316 Richmond Ave | E. P Thomas | Dodge Grove Cem | May 4 1909 | |||||||
| 395 | Emily | Jewel | - | - | - | Nov 3 1904 | 74 | housewife | - | Mitrol Slerosis | Kansas, IL | - | Dodge Grove Cem | - | ||||||
| 957 | Mrs. Mary | Jhones | W | F | W | Apr 30 1907 | 86y, 8m, 15 d | Kentucky | heart failure w/contrib cause of old age | 40 yrs, 4 mo | 1821 Marion Ave, 3rd ward | Mattoon | C.W. Haskell | Dodge Grove Cem | May 4 1907 | |||||
| 428(a) | Infant of Mattie A. | Jimmerson | Aug 21 1903 | still birth | ||||||||||||||||
| 113(a) | Emory | Johns | Aug 26 1902 | Marasmus | ||||||||||||||||
| 64(a) | Irma | Johns | May 7 1902 | infant | meningitis | |||||||||||||||
| 1527 | Joshua | Johns | W | M | - | - | - | - | engineer | - | - | - | nero cum ? | Decatur, Ill | F.S. Schlling | - | Nov 30 1909 | |||
| 360 | Robert | Johns | W | M | M | Apr 16 1903 | barber | Illinois | small pox | 2616 Charleston St, 4th ward | Mattoon. In state all his life | C.W. Haskell | Johnstown, Cumberland Co., IL | Apr 17 1903 | ||||||
| 105 | child of Jas. | Johnson | W | F | S | Aug 11 1900 | Aug 11 1900 | 11 hrs | Mattoon | Mattoon | premature birth | 2316 Moultrie st | Haskell | - | - | |||||
| 524 | Flora K. | Johnson | W | f | M | Jun 18 1905 | 27 | Illinois | Pulmonar Tuberculosis w/contrib cause of child birth & typhoid fever | Mattoon | Mattoon | D.S. Campbell | Dodge Grove Cem | Jul 1 1905 | ||||||
| 177 | Henry | Johnson | W | M | not | Jan 10 1901 | about 73 | Tennesee | Tennesee | Tennesee | heart failure | 2613 Richmond, 5th ward | J.J. Hoag | Tower Hill, IL | Jan 10 1900 | |||||
| ? | Infant of M/M. J.A. | Johnson | W | M | Jan 12 1904 | 10 d | Mattoon | born prematurely | 10d | C.W. Haskell | Mound Cem. | |||||||||
| 1476 | Irvin | Johnson | W | M | M | Aug 22 1909 | 79y, 5 or 6 mos | farmer | FernanAugh Co, Ireland | Brights disease with hypertropey of prostate as contrib. Casue | 2 yrs & 5 yrs | 1100 Lafayett | F.S. Schilling | Dodge Grove Cem | Aug 28 1909 | |||||
| 715 | James H. | Johnson | W | M | - | May 22 1906 | 37 | Junk dealer | killed on big 4 RR | M.E. Hospital | D.S. Campbell | May 22 1906 | ||||||||
| 234 | L. | Johnson | W | F | W | Jun 15 1901 | 69 | congestion of lungs | 3 weeks | 2613 Richmond | J.J. Hoag | Tever (?) Hill | Jun 16 1901 | |||||||
| 936 | Mrs. Mary | Johnson | W | F | W | Mar 28 1907 | 63 | housewife | Illinois | uremia w/contrib cause of Acute Nephritis | 3 days | 1911 Wabash | D.S. Campbell | Dodge Grove Cem | Ma 29 1907 | |||||
| 1113 | Opal | Johnson | W | F | - | Nov 1 1907 | 3 yrs | infant | Mattoon | - | 2 weeks | 1313 Marshall | E.P. Thomas | Quaker Toledo | Nov 1 1907 | |||||
| 475(a) | Rosie | Johnson | B | Nov 10 1903 | 64 | heart disease & old age | ||||||||||||||
| 764 | Bertie S. | Jones | W | F | S | Aug 9 1906 | 6mo | infant | Mattoon | brain fever w/contrib cause of cholera infantum | 612 Shelby | J.D. McCarty | Dodge Grove | Aug 9 1906 | ||||||
| 1394 | Elizabeth P. | Jones | W | F | - | Feb 9 1909 | - | - | - | inquest pending | - | Mattoon, IL | Feb 9 1909 | |||||||
| 363(a) | Everett | Jones | B | Apr 21 1902 | gun shot wound inflicted in quarrel | |||||||||||||||
| 461 | Harry | Jones | W | M | S | Feb 3 1905 | 4 hours | Coles | non-development at birth | 2603 Cottage | D.S. Campbell | Dodge Grove Cem | - | |||||||
| 473 | Infant of M/M Walter | Jones | - | - | S | Mar 17 1905 | 15 days | infant | premature birth | 2508 Richmond | C.W. Haskell | Dodge Grove Cem | Mar 18 1905 | |||||||
| 147(a) | Mary Jane | Jones | Sept 30 1902 | hemiplegia | ||||||||||||||||
| 95 | Eliza | Joyce | W | F | S | Jul 12 1900 | Oct 18 1899 | 8m, 10d | child | Mattoon | Indiana | Illinois | brain fever | 2608 Richmond, 6th ward | Mattoon | C.W. Haskell | Dodge Grove Cem | Jul 12 1900 | ||
| 413(a) | Eliza T. | Judd | Jul 25 1903 | senility |