I also noticed one death cause was listed as something from the mill where the person worked got into his lungs which eventually caused his death. One thing I also believe and if someone knows better, be free to correct me. I believe, other than the hospital deaths, the enumerator got the death causes from the family when they went to the house to do the census. Different enumerators used different terms, especially with the Civil War deaths where there is a grid for the enumerator to check off. Some added addition comments that they must have gotten from the family. I have included them all because it really gives us a feeling for the time. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

One of the more interesting causes of death to me was "brain fever." That's a term I've heard before but have never heard defined. Are they simply talking about someone who had a high fever, probably due to some bacterial or viral infection, that simply was delirious from the fever, or was it something else? Hal Vickery