1860 Oregon Mortality Census

Name	Age	Sex	Color	Free/Slave	Marr./Wid.	Birth	Month died	profession	causeof death	days Ill
1860 Clatsop County
Shepherd, J.D.	45	M	W	Free		New Jersey	April	Sa----- Lumber	Liver Comp.	90
Eply, S.J.	6	F	W	Free		Oregon	March		Inflamation	16
Remarks: Shepherd died with disease of the liver. The girl died with Inflamation of the bowels. Our county is the healthiest place on earth. If a person desires to die a natural death he haves to leave this county. –P. Collendy
1860 Columbia
Cunningham, Jane	18	F				Missouri	June		Accidental drowning	Sudden
Remarks: I have not upon diligent enquiry been able to ascertain that any other persons have died in the County during the past years.Long remarks below
1860 Douglas
Lane, Wm.	3	M				Oregon	December		Disease of throat	1 month
Hankin, Ewd.(?) J.	23	F			Married	Missouri	May		Disease of Liver	3 months
Williams, Haldy	26	F			Married	Missouri	March		Disease of liver	4(?) months
Engles, Shar—lly(?)	18	F			Married	Missouri	January			Fearn(?)
1860 Jackson Co. Jacksonville
Kinney, D.M.	38	M			Married	New Hampshire	February	Lawyer	Chronic Diarrhea	70 days
Anderson, Martha	10/12	F				Oregon	December		Unknown	10 days
Overbeck, Eugene	7	M				Oregon	April		Scarlet Fever	4 days
Overbeck, Laura B.	1	F				Oregon	January		Typhus Fever	21 days
Love, Margaret	73	F		/ (just marked like this)	Widow	Scotland	October		Palsy	3 years
Savage, John W.	4	M				Oregon	November		Croupe	2 days
Carterline, Wm.	52	M			Widowed	Illinois	May	Cooper	Executed for Murder	X
Kohne, Chas. W.	37	M		/ (just marked like this)		Prussia	May	Miner	Stabbed with knife	Sudden
Miller, A.E.	10/12	F				Oregon	April		Scarlet Fever	3 days
Holmes, Mary	2	F				California	May		Scarlet Fever	7 days
1860 Jackson Co. Dardanelles Precinct
Cloffendine, Lydia	10	F				Iowa	March		Sore Throat	9 days
Durham, Mary A.	2	F				Oregon	November		Sore Throat	8 days
Van-ettin, A.D.	28	M				New York	December	Com School Teacher	Sore Throat	28 days
Rosenstock, Cristina	34	F		/ (just marked like this)	Married	Saxony	August	Landlady	Liver Complaint	2 years
1860 Jackson Co. Manzaneta Precinct
Chambers, Waity A.	39	F			Married	New York	July		Cold	7 days
Griffin, John M.	8/12	M				Oregon	December		Lung(?) Fever	2 days
Munden, Jos. L.	10/12	M				Oregon	February		Scalded accidental	21 days
Penniger, Amos	10	M				Iowa	February		Sore Throat	18 days
Burns, Hulda	12	F				Oregon	February		Sore Throat	14 days
Burns, Adam	1	M				Oregon	February		Sore Throat	12 days
1860 Jackson Co. Butte Creek Precinct
Talom, Almeda	9/12	F				Oregon	June		Sore Throat	6 weeks
Swingle, Mary I.	9	F				Wisconsin	October		Spasms	2 days
Stow, Irena	12	F				Missouri	October		Sore Throat	14 days
Stow, Cornelia	12	F				Missouri	September		Sore Throat	7 days
Bozarth, Jesse W.	4	M				Oregon	August		Sore Throat	3 days
Engart, Alex L.	1/12	M				Oregon	December		Sore Throat	1 day

*The usual diseases that have prevailed are Fever and Ague, Bilious and Intermittent Fevers. Jane Cunningham was bathing and accidentally got into deep waters and was drowned. There are numerous mountain streams of pure cold water in this County. Many of them affording fine water power for machinery. Along the shore of the Columbia River there are rich alluvial bottoms similar in sail and productions to the bottom of the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers well adapted to the growing of stock and to the production of apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes etc. Also of wheat, rye, barley oats, Indian corn, and all kinds of vegetables. Large quantities of wild grass are cut upon the bottom for hay. Back of these bottoms the land is usually hilly interspaced with small valleys and sections of table land. Mostly covered with Fir, Oak, Cedar, Spruce, Hemlock, Maple, Ash and Alder timber. The soil is generally of a rich volcanic character with a substratum of clay and produces good crops of fruit and of the cereals, vegetables also grow well but do not yield so largely as upon the bottom lands. The rocks are all basaltic with now and then an isolated boulder of granite. The timber of the bottoms is Cotton wood, oak, ash, alder, maple, crab apple, hawthorne c.

There is in Scappoose Mountain within about two miles of navigation an extensive mine of bituminous coal. Some of the surface coal has been tested in a blacksmith forge and in an ordinary fireplace. It burns freely, is soon consumed, contains some sulphur and is said to indicate good coal beneath the surface. There are also in the same mountains several salt springs the water from one of which has been tested with an ordinary kettle and produced a very fine pure article of salt. (After this he just swears and subscribes to the information)