This material was extracted and transcribed by Dan and Linda in October 2000. The information on this page is the property of Dan and Linda Deslauriers. Commercial use of this material is strictly prohibited. Copyright@2000 Dan and Linda Deslauriers This information was extracted from the Rio Grande County Record Book. Although great care was taken with the spellings of names, we accept no responsibility for accidental omissions or misspellings. The first line contains the date of death, full name, age in years, occupation, and marital status. The second line states the place of birth and the cause of death. MISCELLANEOUS RIO GRANDE COUNTY DEATHS 1895-1899 11/24/1895 Bessie Brockman 4 single Monte Vista typhus fever 5/29/1895 Minerva Alice Croco 59 widow near Monte Vista injury to spine 1/3/1896 Orrin Walls 2 1/2 single Monte Vista congestion of brain 1/18/1896 Oren P. Stewart 51 miner married Ohio carcinoma of liver 3/3/1896 Julia Cary 2 single Ohio morphine poison 3/15/1896 Benton Farrar 54 teamster single Maine pulmonary abscess 4/6/1896 Hanna Sheck 78 none widow Pennsylvania peri-rectal abscess 4/20/1896 Patric Poovey 50 laborer single Missouri cerebral softening 4/17/1896 Francis Bassaclough 61 blacksmith single England intestinal hepatitis 5/30/1896 Baby Van Antwerp 5 days Monte Vista convulsions 6/3/1896 Frank W. Pickett 28 teacher single Ohio perforation of bowels 7/12/1896 John Smith 56 cooper single Ohio yellow atrophy of liver 7/13/1896 Baby Brown 3 days Monte Vista cystitis 8/6/1896 Samuel North 34 farmer single Pennsylvania typhoid fever 4/12/1896 Mrs. Adams 72 housewife widow America apoplexa 2/6/1896 Mrs. Thomas 62 housewife widow America pneumonia 6/22/1896 Margaret O’Neil 46 housewife married - - 9/6/1896 Baby Scott 1 month La Garita enteritis 11/29/1896 Katie Schuck 20 housekeeper single Del Norte nephritis and hepalic hypertrophy 11/9/1896 Baby Nightingale 4 days Del Norte asthma 3/14/1897 Henry Clay Murray 1 Monte Vista capillary bronchitis 1/9/1897 Saml Philips 47 laborer single Kentucky cerebral meningitis 1/29/1897 Clayette Baum 8 days Monte Vista enteritis 2/26/1897 Jas Johnson 56 laborer widowed Ireland Brights Disease 2/26/1897 E. Riley 63 farmer single Iowa cancer of bladder 2/26/1897 John Conway 62 laborer single Iowa paborcalosis 3/7/1897 B. H. Beck 50 miner single Pennsylvania paberculosis 3/7/1897 Clark B. Snell 61 miner widower Indiana heart disease 3/24/1897 Wri Peck 71 farmer widower Vermont cerebral softening 4/15/1897 Wray Adams 1 14 miles north of Monte Vista pneumonia 5/6/1897 Anna L. Freelove 33 housewife married Bedford, Michigan heart disease and grippe 4/1/1897 Thos *nox 55 miner married Michigan 4/12/1897 J. K. Sanderson 58 laborer single Sweden lyrangitus 5/20/1897 Robert Varme 72 blacksmith widower New York heart disease 7/6/1897 Mary S. Hill 38 housewife married Indiana tuberculosis 7/4/1897 ****lic Clark 11 child single Colorado meningitis 7/27/1897 Edward Stafford 70 lawyer widower New York cerebral softening 7/29/1897 John B. Bainbridge 58 miner married England chronic nephritis 9/11/1897 John F. Miller 76 carpenter widower Germany cerebral softening 9/30/1897 Willis Southerland 29 laborer single Illinois accident 2/12/1898 Adelbert Aldrich 70 physician single Massachusetts pulmonary tuberculosis 2/9/1898 Martha Tipton 48 housewife widowed Tennessee paralysis 3/12/1898 Mary E. Robb 63 housewife widowed Pennsylvania pulmonary tuberculosis 8/24/1898 Benj Jones 68 farmer single Wisconsin heart disease 5/20/1898 Henry Coleman 66 cook married Kentucky dropsy 5/2/1898 Wm Marlett 62 farmer single Ohio heart disease 4/26/1898 Charles Saylor 16 none single Nebraska appendicitis 4/8/1898 Francis A. Gardon 41 housewife married Iowa pelvic abscess 8/24/1898 Henry E. Bennett 21 miner single Wisconsin heart disease 8/25/1898 John Coughlin 65 stone cutter single New Jersey intestinal cancer 9/7/1898 Whitney W. Sylvester 1 week single Monte Vista enteritis 9/21/1898 Harry Parkhurst 20 none single Iowa typhoid fever 9/28/1898 A. Atherton 62 farmer single Vermont cerebral posseam? 2/22/1898 Mrs. Birdie E. Kelbery 24 housewife married Richland County, Wisconsin congestion of lungs 7/8/1897 Bessie Darney 5 weeks infant north of Monte Vista pneumonia 6/10/1898 infant child of J. Haas 2 days Rock Creek cyanosis 11/9/1898 Emma Robillard 27 housewife married New York heart failure 4/27/1898 Mrs. F. S. Von Antwerp - housewife married - heart failure 3/13/1899 Thomas De Hart Cochran 57 miner married Ohio unreadable