This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAVIS, DORSEY, GRANT, HARDAWAY, JOHNSON, LEWIS, WILSON, WRIGHT Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1443 Message Board Post: From “What Columbus Negroes Die Of” “…An Enquirer-Sun reporter yesterday looked through the death certificates book in the city office. The death cases among colored people where causes of death was [sic] assigned were as follows: “Ava WILSON, organic heart disease; Infant of Larua GRANT, fever; Willie JOHNSON, LaGrippe; Anna L. HARDAWAY, meningitis; Warren DORSEY, pneumonia; Marietta DAVIS, consumption; Infant of Harriet WRIGHT, pneumonia; Harriet LEWIS, LaGrippe.” The “Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun” newspaper, Thursday, 20 FEB 1902. LaGrippe is an old term for influenza (the flu). Consumption is now known as tuberculosis, or TB. I am not related to any of these individuals. I came across this item while researching an unrelated matter. I would be very interested to know if such death certificate records are still on file with the city/county government in Columbus, and for what dates they were maintained.