My friends - Today, we are going to continue our review of the Graves County Vital Statistics Death Records. In prior segments in this series, we have advanced from the year 1852 to 1857, and we will continue with that year in this installment. It is probably time for me to say again that these early records are woefully inadequate and incomplete. Only about 40%-50% of the actual births, marriages and deaths which occurred ever found their way into these VS records. And those that did carry a high error rate. So use the data with appropriate caution. Unfortunately, in Graves County, due to the courthouse fire in 1887, we may never find any other corroborating or disproving data on these deaths. If you see a name in the list below which belongs to your family, and you would like the complete data set for that individual(which generally includes the date of death, age of the deceased, sex, if not obvious, where born, where died, marital status, cause of death and names of parents), let me know and I will get that information out to you. As always, your help in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. We will finish out the week's postings tomorrow with another in the Tips series. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Graves County Vital Statistics Records - Deaths - Part 12 (Age and sex, if not obvious, are shown after the names) Pitman, Elizabeth, 27 Akins, H.M., (M), 32 White, F. (M), 13 mos Sugg, L.V. (M), 6 Marr, J.W. (M), 3 mos Michael, Willy, 3 Howard, L.H. (F), 3 Gray, H.W. (F), 15 mos Burgess, E.F. (F), 25 Bevis, Lewis, 6 mos Franklin, W.J. (M), 30 Franklin, S.E. (F), 21 Fore, Peter, 30 Tucker, Rosa, 50 McCallister, B., (F), 63 Parham, Daniel, 58 Bennett, J.M. (M), 7 Mullins, W.H. (M), 17 Wilson, H.C. (M), 3 Bostick, H.P. (M), 23 Little, R. (F), 60 Short, M. (F), 37 Short, James B., 9 mos Frost, James, 4 mos Blalock, Levi, 44 Gregory, John A., 3 Gregory, H. (M), 15 Parker, Julia, 90 Morris, J. (M), 22 Watts, Jane W., 36 Watts, Daniel, 6 Gregory, S.H. (F), 29 Bradley, L. (F), 4 Morgan, D.C. (F), 4 Bradley, J.B. (M), 2 Dodson, T.J. (F), 4 ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++