It may be of some interest to someone that I have totaled the deaths by year for about 60% of the G. H. Tuttle book, mostly out of curiosity to see if there is evidence of epidemic deaths. I will freely admit that I know nothing of whether Mr. Church had competition for his services at any point from 1862-1910, whether he was incapacitated for any reason during that time and kept records less well some years than others, or whether the base population he was able to serve changed markedly over time. Any of those factors could make these figures meaningless. My guess is that a small commercial center such as Atlanta only had one undertaker during that period, that most folks were farmers and that farmers hadn't enjoyed the industrial revolution to any extent from the beginning to the end of the term of years in question, thus continued to have as many children as they could raise to enjoy the fruit of their labor until they married and moved away. If anyone has access to the population of the township in which Atlanta was located for the census years 1860-1910, I would be able to plug in the population factor to these totals after a fashion. Nonetheless, there are significant differences in mortality from one year to the next, indicating surges of disease caused fatalities. The largest year for deaths by far is 1865. I would speculate this is a combination of the wearing down of families during the absence of the father of the family off in the service with the effect of soldiers returning from the war bringing viruses with them to which the home front had not been previously exposed. # per year 9 37 1862 52 1863 45 1864 82 1865 52 1866 51 1867 42 1868 41 18698 64 1870 531871 63 1872 67 1873 43 1874 61 1875 47 1876 35 1877 281878 271879 411880 43 1881 35 1882 26 1883 32 1884 27 1885 36 1886 32 1887 36 1888 29 1889 41 1890 35 1891 34 1892 31 1893 34 1894 41 1895 44 1896 25 1897 21 1898 28 1899 24 1900 21 1901 18 1902 21 1903 39 1904 20 1905 31 1906 31 1907 35 1908 29 1909 38 1910