My friends - Today, we are going to return to our review of the Vital Statistics death records for Graves County. In prior installments, we had worked our way up to the year 1857, and we will continue with that year in this post. I should say at the outset that the original books for 1857, and especially 1858, are in very poor condition - in some cases almost unreadable, even at the KY Archives, looking at the originals themselves, so use this information with caution - given the amount of errors which we have come to expect in these records, we are always prepared for things that do not match other records we may have, but when the originals are in such poor condition, this enhances the possibility of transcription errors. If you see a name which interests you, and you would like the complete dataset on that person(which usually includes the date of death, the age, whether male or female, if not obvious, whether single or married if an adult, where born, where died, cause of death and name[s] of parent[s]), let me know and I will get the information to you. We are once again dealing with initials in most cases, rather than names, which is a further hindrance, but such are the records. As always, your help in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. I will be out of town all day tomorrow, so responses may be delayed somewhat. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Graves County - Vital Statistics Records - Deaths - 1852-1859 - Part 11 (Age and sex given after name) Whites, M.L., 5 F McNeill, Zella, F Gillam, M., 39 F Yahr, C.F., 5 mos, M (born Germany) Cope, J.R., 5 mos, M Goodwin, Jesse, 70 Saxon, Joshua, 18 Turnbow, T.N., 6 M Overby, R.N., 7 M Webb, S.N.E., 2 F Proffet, ----- 5 mos M Crawford, T.W., 37 M Edwards, M.E.J., 5 weeks F West, P.A., 2 F Lusk, M.M., 1 F Green, J.L., 5 days M Usrey, R.D., 61 M Wheeler, Mary, 46 F Kesterson, J.H., 2 weeks M Barton, Frances, 30 F Wilson, T.T., 1 M Reeves, M.A., 6 mos F Reeves, M., 5 mos F Morris, James B[uchanan], 1 Chambers, John, 44 Chambers, A., 21 M Chambers, William, 38 Chambers, M.A., 19 F Chambers, N.J., 15 F Murdock, Amanda, 35 ~to be continued~ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++