1855 Grayson County Deaths
Transcribed by Jim Wooldridge
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| Name of deceased | Name of parents | ||||||||||||
| Surname | Given | Age | Sex | Condition | Occupation | Residence | Place of Birth | or Owners of Slaves | Place of Death | Time of Death | Cause of Death | Remarks | |
| 4 days | Female | Blacksmith | Grayson Co, Ky | Grayson Co, Ky | Joseph & Jane Meredith | Grayson Co, Ky | April | 3 | unknown | ||||
| 2 hours | Male | Farmer | " | " | Isaac & Susan Snyder | " | Nov | 2 | " | ||||
| Logsdon | Woodford | 9 | " | Single | " | " | Hart Co, Ky | Jno K. & Monica Logsdon | " | Sept | 10 | Dysentery | |
| Fenwick | Silas | 22 | " | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | H. & Elizabeth Fenwick | " | August | 29 | " | |
| Fenwick | George W. | 9 yr-18 days | " | " | " | " | " | " " " | " | Sept | 6 | " | |
| Alvy | Mary J. | 25 | " | " | " | " | " | Jas & Mary Alvy | " | Decr | 3 | Scrofula | |
| Layman | Charles A. | 5 | " | " | " | " | " | J. W. & Sarah J. Layman | " | May | 12 | Typhus fever | |
| Cook | Mary E. | 6 | Female | " | " | " | " | Wm & Betsey Cook | " | July | 20 | " | |
| Atterberry | Michael | 63 | Male | Married | " | " | South Carolina | Chas & Sarah Atterberry | " | July | 20 | Accident | |
| Grayham | Mary | 39 | Female | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | James & K. Skaggs | " | Sept | 30 | Fecre Ill??? | |
| Slave | Abraham | 18 | Male | " | " | Benjamin Philips | " | August | 12 | Consumption | |||
| Goldsberry | Mary A. | 20 | Female | Single | " | " | " | J. L. & Salina Goldsberry | " | August | 2 | Typhus fever | |
| Goldsberry | Margaret F. | 8 | " | " | " | " | " | " " " | " | Jany | 21 | Scarlet fever | |
| Goldsberry | William A. | 29 | Male | Married | " | " | " | Jona & Mary Goldsberry | " | June | 23 | Typhus fever | |
| Goldsberry | Margaret R. | 14 | Female | Single | " | " | " | Wm & Mary A. Goldsberry | " | Feby | 11 | " | |
| Goldsberry | James J. | 4 | Male | " | " | " | Edmonson Co, Ky | " " " | " | March | 6 | " | |
| Goldsberry | Mary T. | 7 | Female | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | " " " | " | May | 10 | " | |
| Slave | Mary | 15 | Female | " | " | unknown | |||||||
| Scott | Henry | 2 | Male | " | " | " | " | Caroline Scott | " | Nov | 16 | Interprit | |
| Downs | Rachel | 88 | Female | Widow | " | " | " | " | April | 17 | Cancer | ||
| Brown | Jemima | 82 | " | " | " | " | Washington Co, Ky | John Peak | " | July | 3 | Dropsey | |
| Watkins | Thomas | 8 | Male | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | David E. & Nancy Watkins | " | Sept | 25 | unknown | |
| Downs | Squire | 22 | " | Married | " | " | " | Israel & Catharine Downs | " | Decr | 5 | Typhus fever | |
| Dennis | Martha J. | 24 | Female | " | " | " | Indiana | G. W. & Mary Dennis | " | June | 17 | Pneumonia | |
| Booker | Martha E. | 13 hours | " | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Geo M. L. & Elizabeth Booker | " | July | 9 | unknown | |
| Richardson | Sarah J. | 16 | " | " | " | " | " | Thos W. & Huldah Richardson | " | Feby | 12 | Pneumonia | |
| Skaggs | Sibba D. | 34 | " | Married | " | " | Hart Co, Ky | John & Malinda Kinkade | " | August | 8 | Fever Pre???? | |
| Fulkerson | John M. | 5 days | Male | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Sampson & M. A. Henderson | " | Sept | 2 | unknown | |
| 3 weeks | " | " | " | " | " | Solomon & Ury Kessinger | " | Decr | 1 | " | |||
| Riggs | Sarah | 56 | Female | Married | " | " | " | Harvey & Keniah Boatman | " | Oct | 10 | Consumpion | |
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3 | Male | Single | " | " | " | Oliver & Mary Hart | " | Decr | 25 | Cold | ||
| Akers | Sarah J. | 4 | Female | " | Blacksmith | " | Hardin Co, Ky | James & Martha Akers | " | July | 23 | Scarlet fever | |
| Skaggs | Abraham D. | 2 weeks | Male | " | Farmer | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Thos G. & Jemima J. Skaggs | " | April | 11 | Croup | |
| Line | Julia A. | 1 yr-5 mo | Female | " | " | " | " | Geo & Elizabeth Line | " | May | 15 | " | |
| Bruner | Peter | 6 mo | Male | " | " | " | " | Vardeman & Delila Bruner | " | March | 31 | Inflammation of the brain | |
| Bruner | Sally G. | 15 | Female | " | Wheelwright | " | " | O. H. P. & Margaret B. Bruner | " | Oct | 14 | unknown | |
| Ann | 16 | " | " | Farmer | " | " | Andrew & Margarit Burtle | " | July | " | |||
| Horrel | Margaret H. | 24 | " | Married | " | " | " | John & Lucinda Langley | " | June | 29 | Typhus fever | |
| Durbin | Margaret | 72 | " | Widow | " | " | St. Mary's Co, Md | Joshua & Honer Brown | " | Oct | 8 | Intermittent fever | |
| Pirtle | Mary A. | 28 | " | Married | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Bennett & Ellen Mattingly | " | Decr | 21 | unknown | |
| Clark | Elizabeth | " | Widow | " | " | " | Littleberry Straden | " | April | 1 | Dropsey | ||
| Mattingly | James A. | 1 yr-5 mo | Male | Single | " | " | " | Anselm & M. A. Mattingly | " | Sept | 12 | Enycipelas | |
| Langley | Sarah T. | 2 yr-6 mo | Female | " | " | " | " | Joseph & Susan Langley | " | Nov | 14 | Dysentery | |
| Clark | Teresa E. | 6 mo | " | " | " | " | " | Thos & Harriot F. Clark | " | Feby | 27 | " | |
| Pryor | Martha A. | 10 days | " | " | " | " | " | Henry A. & Celia A. Pryor | " | Sept | 2 | unknown | |
| Higdon | Margaret F. | 36 | " | Married | " | " | " | Jones & Mary Goldsberry | " | August | 4 | Typhus fever | |
| Higdon | Martin N. | 4 mo | Male | Single | " | " | " | Zachariah & Lucinda Higdon | " | April | 25 | unknown | |
| Akers | John | 65 | " | Married | " | " | Virginia | Austin Akers | " | Feby | 17 | Heart Dropsey | |
| Akers | Austin H. | 17 | " | Single | " | " | Hardin Co, Ky | John & Elizabeth Akers | " | April | 19 | Typhus fever | |
| Bray | Mary E. | 9 mo | Female | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Mary Bray | " | March | 30 | Scarlet fever | |
| Hazlewood | Nancy | 14 | " | " | " | " | " | James & Susan Hazlewood | " | Sept | Cold | ||
| Hazlewood | John | 4 days | Male | " | " | " | " | " " " | " | Sept | unknown | ||
| Hazlewood | James W. | 11 | " | " | " | " | " | Thomas & Emily Hazlewood | " | June | 29 | Spine, Dis of | |
| Hazlewood | Green | 5 mo | " | " | " | " | " | " " " | " | March | 11 | unknown | |
| Paul | Mary B. | 45 | Female | Married | " | " | Morgan Town, Va | William & Jane Tongle | " | May | 30 | Dropsey | |
| Milner | Mary M. | 2 mo | " | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Eleza A. Milner | " | Jany | 10 | Scarlet fever | |
| 1 week | Female | " | " | " | " | Joseph W. & Martha Rogers | " | May | 30 | Croup | |||
| Storms | Ann | 39 | " | Married | " | " | " | Jona & Mary Goldsberry | " | July | 11 | Typhus fever | |
| Storms | Martha J. | 3 | " | Single | " | " | " | John & Ann Storms | " | April | 25 | Scarlet fever | |
| Hough | Mary E. | 2 mo | " | " | " | " | " | Wm H. & Francis E. Hough | " | Sept | 10 | unknown | |
| Templeman | Roy | 76 | Male | Widower | " | " | Farqurian Co, Va | Edward & ___Templeman | " | Oct | 16 | Typhus fever | |
| Kinkade | Mary A. | 6 | Female | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Saml & Manerva Kinkade | " | August | 27 | Remitent fever | |
| Doran | Charles T. | 7 mo | Male | " | " | " | " | Saml & Eliza Doran | " | April | 16 | Spine, Dis of | |
| Duncan | William S. | 36 | " | Married | " | Monroe Co, Mo | Boyle Co, Ky | Housen & Susannah Duncan | Monroe Co, MO | August | 12 | Inflammation of the brain | |
| Dennis | Catharine | 65 | Female | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Maryland | Grayson Co, Ky | Nov | 30 | unknown | ||
| Probus | Alexander | 70 | Male | Widower | " | " | " | William & Mary Probus | " | Oct | 3 | " | |
| Probus | Mary | 65 | Female | Married | " | " | " | Simon & Susan Pryor | " | July | " | ||
| White | Eliza Ellen | 19 | " | Single | " | " | Hardin Co, Ky | J. M. & Monica White | " | Oct | 21 | Typhoid fever | |
| Taylor | Elenor | 86 | " | Widow | " | " | Shenadoah Co, Va | Blackburn | " | Oct | 19 | Old age | |
| Allen | Nancy | 23 | " | Single | " | " | Hardin Co, Ky | Joseph & Mary Allen | " | Sept | 22 | Typhoid fever | |
| Deweese | Martha Ann | 23 | " | Married | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Jane England | " | April | 8 | Pneuperal fever | |
| Infant | 4 days | Male | Single | " | " | " | Saml & Elizabeth Young | " | April | 16 | unknown | ||
| Payton | Joseph | 8 | " | " | Farmer's son | " | " | James & Lucy Payton | " | Decr | 11 | Croup | |
| Slave | Rachel A. | 60 | Female | " | " | William Stinson | " | June | 18 | Plurisy | |||
| Gardner | Elizabeth | 72 | " | Widow | Carriage trimmer | " | Liverpool, England | Samuel Delander | " | Jany | 14 | Intermittent fever | |
| Bates | Nicholas | 1 yr-6 mo | Male | Single | Farmer | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Elizabeth Bates | " | August | 16 | Remitent fever | |
| Wilson | Harriet | 20 | Female | Married | Spinster | " | " | Caleb & Lydia Stinson | " | August | 6 | " | |
| Deweese | William E. | 2 weeks | Male | Single | Farmer's son | " | " | Farmer & Nancy Deweese | " | August | 21 | " | |
| Deweese | Missouri Bell | 2 weeks | Female | " | Farmer's daughter | " | " | " " " | " | Oct | 6 | " | |
| Craig | Minerva | 28 | " | " | " | " | " | Isaac & Katharine Craig | " | Sept | 28 | Bronchites | |
| Davidson | Martha J. | 3 | " | " | " | " | " | Charles & Eleza Davison | " | Sept | 15 | not known | |
| Porter | Edward | 1 mo | Male | " | Farmer's son | " | " | R. M. & America Porter | " | August | 10 | " | |
| Young | Joel A. | 1 | " | " | " | " | " | William & Harriot Young | " | June | 27 | Dysentery | |
| Spurrier | William | 66 | " | Married | Stone mason | " | Pennsylvania | Thos & Delila Spurrier | " | March | 31 | Pneumonia | |
| Infant | 3 days | " | Single | Farmer's son | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Obedience Ferry | " | March | 16 | not known | ||
| Slave | John A. | 2 | " | " | Slave | " | " | Thomas Sullenger | " | Decr | 22 | Worms | |
| Brazier | Thomas J. | 13 | " | " | Farmer | " | Decature Co, La | Jacob & Eliza Brazier | " | Decr | 27 | Hart, Dis of | |
| England | Spotswood | 35 | " | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Jane England | " | Nov | 17 | Convulsions | |
| Nugent | Serilda | 35 | Female | Married | Spinster | " | " | William & --- McClure | " | Nov | 29 | Remitent fever | |
| Infant | 2 hours | Male | Single | " | " | Aaron & Polly Day | " | Sept | 15 | " | |||
| Deweese | Mary M. | 3 | Female | " | " | " | " | Charles & Manerva J. Deweese | " | Oct | 25 | Intermittent fever | |
| Infant | 3 hours | Male | " | " | " | Thomas & Emalina Lewis | " | March | 26 | unknown | |||
| Wilson | Lydia Ann | 6 | Female | " | " | " | " | Samuel & Susan Wilson | " | Feby | 12 | Scarlet fever | |
| Barton | Elenor | 61 | " | Married | " | " | Nelson Co, Ky | Mahugh & Mary Harris | " | Oct | 9 | Intermittent fever | |
| Whooberry | Lucy | 73 | " | Widow | " | " | Mercer Co, Ky | " | April | 15 | Apoplexy | ||
| Carns | Zachariah | 74 | Male | Widower | Farmer | " | North Carolina | " | May | 24 | Dropsey | ||
| Carns | Polly | 70 | Female | Married | " | " | Virginia | " | April | 9 | Diarrehea | ||
| Taylor | Eliza Ellen | 16 | " | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Silas & Nancy Taylor | " | April | 25 | Pneumonia | |
| Goff | Lary | 1 | Male | " | " | " | " | Hartford & Elizabeth Goff | " | August | 18 | Croup | |
| Cooper | Delela | 13 | Female | " | " | " | " | Saml & Nancy Cooper | " | Oct | 1 | Dysentery | |
| Decker | Nancy | 40 | " | Married | Spinster | " | " | John & Katharine Hayse | " | May | 25 | Consumption | |
| Molohon | John D. | 2 | Male | Single | Farmer | " | " | Charles & Mary J. Molohen | " | Sept | 28 | Dysentery | |
| Cummins | Elizabeth B. | 59 | Female | Married | Spinster | Pulaski Co, Ky | Pulaski Co, Ky | Charles & Jane Dotson | " | Oct | 5 | Intermittent fever | |
| Sheaffer | Lydia M. | 28 | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Roanoak Co, Va | David & Mary Keafauver | " | June | 16 | Scrofula | |
| Whitely | William | 55 | Male | " | Farmer | " | Bedford Co, Va | John & Abashaba Whitely | " | July | 3 | Li ver, Dis of | |
| Beauchamp | William T. | 2 | " | Single | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Granville & E. Beauchamp | " | July | 15 | Dysentery | |
| Woods | Archibald | 85 | " | Widower | " | " | Alexandria Co, Va | Archibald & Mary Woods | " | Oct | 4 | Ulcer | |
| Dowden | William T. | 4 | " | Single | without occupation | " | Daviess Co, Ky | Darnell & Sarah Dowden | " | July | 19 | Dropsey | |
| Wortham | William C. | 56 | " | Married | Farmer | " | Nelson Co, Ky | Charles & Lucretia Wortham | " | Oct | 7 | Enleritis | |
| Taylor | Elenor | 55 | Female | " | Spinster | " | Carolina | James & Polly Lucky | " | Oct | 20 | Convulsions | |
| Moore | Amelia M. | 19 | Female | Single | " | " | Daviss Co, Ky | George & Mary J. Moore | " | Sept | 22 | Intermittent fever | |
| Carter | Nancy | 18 | " | " | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Thompson & Matilda Carter | " | July | 24 | Rencillent fever | |
| Coats | Louisa | 38 | " | Married | " | " | New York | Seth & Mary Dillavergin | " | Oct | 20 | Remitent fever | |
| Bratcher | Zachariah L. | 1 | Male | Single | Farmer | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Thornton & Malinda Bratcher | " | May | 6 | Convulsions | |
| Slave | Thornton | 10 | " | " | without occupation | " | " | Willis Green | " | Oct | Congestive fever | ||
| Green | Napoleon | 20 | " | " | " | " | St.Clair Co, Ill | Morgan B. & ---Green | " | " | Consumption | ||
| Taylor | William | 29 | " | " | Farmer | " | Grayson Co, Ky | John & Sarah Taylor | " | Decr | 27 | " | |
| Dennison | William M. | 2 | " | " | " | " | " | Josiah Dennison | " | August | 4 | unknown | |
| 2 days | " | " | " | " | " | Gideon & Sarah J. Houk | " | March | 18 | " | |||
| Arms | John A. | 1 yr-5 mo | " | " | " | " | " | Edward & Polly Arms | " | April | 1 | " | |
| Frank | John | 56 | " | Widower | " | " | Breckenridge Co, Ky | " | July | 14 | Typhoid fever | ||
| Storms | Sarah | 58 | Female | Widow | " | " | Grayson Co, Ky | Elijah & Jane Collard | " | Decr | 1 | Canser | |
| Storms | Margaret A. | 14 | " | Single | " | " | " | Daniel B. & Sarah Storms | " | April | 21 | Typhoid fever | |
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