My friends - Today, as we resume data posts, I am beginning a new Calloway County series. The State of KY made one of its unsuccessful attempts to get the counties to collect vital statistics records in the period 1874-1878, as it had in the 1852-1859 time frame. The same problems occurred in the later period as had happened in the earlier one. The county clerks detested the law, as it added to their burden, and they lobbied extensively to have the law repealed. As with the earlier VS law in the 1850's, they were successful, and this later one was also repealed. I have one set of death records for the year 1878 which I am going to bring you, broken into two or three segments. If you see a name of interest to you, and you would like to see the full dataset for that listing(which includes the date of death, the age of the deceased, the sex where it is not obvious, where the deceased was born, the names of the parents, and their birthplaces), please let me know and I will get that material off to you. As always, *please* do not resend this entire message back to me with your request. Doing so causes a waste of paper, as I print these requests so that I can jot down the notes I need to respond, and I do not need 3 sheets of paper to use for that purpose, which is what occurs if my original message is resent with the request, and I fail to notice that before I print the request. If you use the Reply to button on your mail program, just hit it and then go down in the body where my message is seen, highlight it, and press delete on your keyboard, and its gone. I do need the Subject line title of the post, however, especially if a request is made several days after the original post. Your help in this area is greatly appreciated. Tomorrow, we will return to Marshall County. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Calloway County Vital Statistics Records - Deaths - 1878 - Part 1 (Age at death shown after name) Reed, Polly M., 70 Newsome, Lilly M., 7 days Cox, Rufus, 3 Hughes, Emma, 6 mos Crass, O.J., 5 (F) Edwards, ------ 2 days (M) Yandell, -------, 3 (M) Ragsdale, W.R., 38 (M) Yandell, S.L., 3 (M) [this is a duplicate of the Yandell death just above] Chapman, ------, 1 mo (M) Cavill, Thankful, 6 Edwards, ------, 3 hours (M) Fiser, Eunice, 4 Hargrove, ------, 3 weeks (M) Morton, Louisa, 25 Russell, ------, 5 weeks Miller, John, 1 Height, Elizabeth, 74 Ray, ------. 2 days (M) Stone, James A., 14 Miller, ------, 1 day (M) Curd, Early B[rent], 2 Newport, Elizabeth, 58 Wilson, Mattie S., 9 mos Bridges, Elizabeth, 25 Dunn, Ananias, 6 days Stubblefield, Jane, 78 Allbritten, Lorinda, 23 Henry, M.W., 61 (M) Tailor, Kittie, 53 Waters, Sallie, 33 ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++