This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/345.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I ~think~ that the Mortality Census was for the 12 months preceeding the census which would be from June 1, 1869 until May 31 1870. This would probably mean that he died before June 1, 1869... maybe....or he didn't die where you thought he did. Carole