The deaths I have are: 31 Mar 1871 Death Johannes Spindler 5 Sep 1872 Death Katharina (Schaub) Spindler Nov 1885 Death John Spindler 6 Jun 1901 Death Johann Jakob Schaffner 19 Feb 1903 Death Fredrich Schaffner 27 Mar 1903 Death Simeon (John Simon) Spindler 28 Oct 1903 Death Susanna (Bohrn) Schaffner 10 Mar 1911 Death Ann Maria (Erni) Spindler 9 Apr 1915 Death Anna Margaretha (Schelker) Schaffner 13 Aug 1917 Death Samuel Spindler 14 Sep 1921 Death Simon John Spindler Sep 1925 Death Minnie (Schaffner) Holzer 12 Jul 1931 Death Ernst Christian Spindler Jul 1933 Death Rosina (Schaffner)Schmidt 14 Apr 1935 Death Samuel Holzer 7 Oct 1950 Death Mary (Schaffner) Doerflinger 3 Oct 1961 Death Amy (Clark) Schaffner 1 Aug 1963 Death Florence Mae (Clark) Schaffner Apr 1976 Death Cora (Kaiser) Schaffner- 12 Feb 1988 Death Ralph Schmidt Some of these are probably after your time frame. The Schaffners, Spindlers and Doerflingers were mostly born in Switzerland. Will this information be on the internet somewhere? Thank you for doing this! Ruth Mather ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [MOFRANKL-L] Death Register 83-87 > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:55:47 -0400 > From: "J. Mark & Natalie Davis" <davisnm@earthlink.net> > To: MOFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com > > Dear list > > I have been transcribing the Death Register for Franklin Co for the > Missouri State Archives and wanted to request some help from everyone on > the list. If you have family living in Franklin Co during these years, > I would like you to send me those names. I might be able to find you > some interesting facts, and this would give me a good way of double > checking my entries. Even more importantly I may end up figuring out > some of the spellings for many of these German names. The script was > pretty fancy and sometime illegible. If you know of someone who died > during this time and know the date that would be great. But even if you > don't think anyone from your family died, I still request you send the > name...there are a tremendous number of infants who died and you may not > have known about these family members. > It has been very interesting to transcribe this register. The records > can contain any of the following - Name, sex, color, age at death (down > to day sometimes), occupation, date of death, marital status, > nationality, where born, how long resident of state, place of death, > cause of death, complication, duration of complication, duration of > disease, place of burial, date of burial, name of undertaker, place of > business, name and residence of physician returning certificate. I have > gotten attached to many of the undertakers and physicians, have learned > a lot about 1800's medicine and handwriting, and have given myself quite > a headache figuring out some of the words. Interesting occupations I > have come across are coopers, cigar makers, marble cutter, wagon maker, > shoemaker, etc. And some of the ailments went from sad to confusing. > Great numbers died of cholera, dysentery & typhoid fever. And of course > many women died in childbirth. Several were hit by trains, shot, and > one guy died on gangrene of the mouth - yuck. I hope we can be of some > use to each other. So please send me the names of your ancestors today. > > Thanks > Natalie > Athens GA