Melisa: Thanks for your reply! I am searching for death records for ande(andrew) and mary and son andrew 11 years old, I have in my records that they appear in the 1880 mortality schedule, for drew county, No other information is known, I do however have some variable information that the daughter semantha lived near them. also son sanford appears on 1880 cencus with wife emma margarette dye. Then they migrated to indian terr. by 1900. Thak yiu . Kathy baker

Kathy, Yes, I do see that Andrew, Mary and Andrew Baker, Jr. are in the 1880 mortality schedule index: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ardrew/1880mor.html (Scroll to the bottom of the page for 1880). There is also a Jane Baker, age 56, in this mortality schedule. I don't know the relation to your Andrew Baker family. If you can find the original mortality schedule, it should tell you the exact date of death for each of these individuals. Unfortunately, Arkansas did not start keeping official death records until 1914, so this mortality schedule is your best bet. You're actually very lucky that your Bakers died in one of the years for which the mortality schedule was kept, because you have a chance at finding the actual dates and cause of death! It would be interesting to see if your Bakers all died around the same time and of the same cause, which might indicate an illness in the family or an epidemic of some sort. Does anyone know of any epidemics in Drew County in 1879-1880? Also, does anyone know where to find the original mortality schedules, with the dates of death on them? Thanks, Melissa -----Original Message----- From: PARVONA@aol.com [mailto:PARVONA@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:54 PM To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ARDREW] Re: ARDREW-D Digest V05 #13 Melisa: Thanks for your reply! I am searching for death records for ande(andrew) and mary and son andrew 11 years old, I have in my records that they appear in the 1880 mortality schedule, for drew county, No other information is known, I do however have some variable information that the daughter semantha lived near them. also son sanford appears on 1880 cencus with wife emma margarette dye. Then they migrated to indian terr. by 1900. Thak yiu . Kathy baker

I know there was a Yellow Fever Epedemic in 1878 in the south; I have a relative that died in Grenada, MS. Jo-Ann Stephens Bahai@netusa1.net