In a message dated 2/24/99 2:58:56 AM Central Standard Time, ALMADISO-D- [email protected] writes: << It is my understanding that the mortality schedule is for the period from 1 June of the year preceding the census until 1 June of the year in which the census is taken (e.g. 1 June 1859 until 1 June 1860). Gwen Boucher >> This probably makes the most sense of all that has been said--though I don't really understand why the state would go to the expense of printing a book that covered only one tenth of the deaths included in that census. Key years, I suppose, but it seems almost penny-wise-pound-foolish. My 1850 AL Mortality schedule also includes the attending doctor (from death certificate, I suppose, the cause of death, and the duration of the disase (or whatever).Perhaps it includes next of kin--I'm not sure & I can't spot the book right now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- I have been searching for a death date or obituary for Elizabeth (Lizzy) Damaris Holman for many years. She was 'released' from a church in Athens in Limestone Co. in 1896 (under the name E. D. Holman) and died before the 1900 census. -------- Was Lizzie Holman of the same Limestone Co, AL, Holman family as Rev. J.H., Jean Flack, Joe, Mary A., Arthur, and Sue (Milhouse) Holman mentioned in part two of Faye Ashford Axton's The Lure and Lore of Limestone County, Alabama? J.H. Holman mentioned as early Methodist minister in Athens, AL on p. 37 in part one of same book (one book, two parts, indexed separately). Al Hill