Back to Town of Winfield PageHERKIMER COUNTY, NY DEATHS 1847 - 1849 |
This original transcription of the vital records of the Town of Winfield, 1847 - 1849, was made by Kathy Huxtable, Town of Columbia editor. Reading through and transcribing these from the original took Kathy a long time to do and we really appreciate her effort to bring more official records to the site. We hope this list provides clues to ancestral location and helps you better formulate questions when visiting Mohawk Valley societies or ordering mail searches. If you recognize anyone on this list, please drop a line to Martha so we can note it on this page.
As you scan the listings you'll see unusual spellings. They're not typos but can be attributed to well-known difficulties in reading fragile records with old handwriting, as well as assumptions made by the registrars of the deaths. If a spelling differs from that of your ancestral surname, or deaths didn't take place in the town you thought your ancestors were from, don't pass them by. Jot them down...just in case. A date and location from these vital records can be used to search in the 1850 census or the info may turn out useful to others searching your surnames.
During years 1847 - 1850 some New York State counties officially recorded information about births, marriages and deaths. Then they just stopped. Not all counties preserved this early information so each county must be taken on a case-by-case basis in making inquiries of societies. Required birth registration didn't start in New York State until the 1880s, over 25 years after the 1847 - 1849 events were recorded, and wasn't really enforced until 1900. New York State death registration wasn't required until just after 1900.
*** Official death certificates did not exist in New York State in 1847 - 1849.***
*** Neither Kathy nor I have further info on the persons named below. ***
| Jan.5 | Mary Babcock U.N. | Winfield | 85 | Spinster | Old Age |
| Jan.16 | Palmer Round U.N. | Winfield | 13 | Farmer | Paralysis |
| Feb.12 | Lovina Francis U.N. | Winfield | 22 | Spinster | Consumption |
| Mar.20 | Emma Jane Round U.N. | Winfield | 10 | -- | Paralysis |
| Mar.21 | Harlem P. Harwood U.N. | Winfield | 1 | -- | Dropsy of the Chest |
| Apr.8 | Iscah Elmer (female) M.N. | Columbia | 53 | Spinster | Consumption |
| Apr.27 | Laura Round U.N. | Winfield | 8 | -- | Inflamation on the Brain |
| May 10 | Jos. Tucker M.F. | Winfield | 46 | Farmer | Consumption |
| July 20 | Mary Carney M.F. | Winfield | 28 | Spinster | Consumption |
| July 27 | Jerod C. Brown U.N. | Winfield | 20 | Farmer | Consumption |
| Aug.1 | Rodey Randall M.N. | Winfield | 64 | Farmer | Palsy |
| Aug.11 | E.B. Elmer (female) M.N. | Columbia | 32 | Spinster | Comsumption |
| Aug.13 | Lydia Cook M.N. | Winfield | 70 | Spinster | Apoplexy |
| Aug.13 | Peter N. Morgan U.N. | Winfield | 24 | Farmer | Abcess |
| Aug.19 | Willard P. Murdock U.N. | Winfield | 11 mo. | -- | Infantile Cholera |
| Sept.16 | Martha E. Mattison U.N. | Winfield | 2 | -- | Dysentery |
| Oct.7 | Angelin Clark M.N. | Winfield | 33 | Spinster | Inflamation of the Stomach |
| Dec.17 | Nathan Harwood M.N. | Winfield | 52 | Farmer | Billious Fever |
| Jan.4 | Harriet Edwards U.N. | Winfield | 8- (?) | Housework | Dropsey of the Heart |
| Jan.29 | Robert Wilson M.F. | Winfield | 50 | Day laborer | Apoplectic Fit |
| Feb.16 | Mariet Coller U.N. | Winfield | 5 mo. | -- | Consumption |
| Feb.19 | John Goff U.N. | Winfield | 92 | Farmer | Old Age |
| Feb.25 | Bridget Congdon M.N. | Litchfield | 77 | Housewife | Consumption |
| Mar.4 | William Lawton M.N. | Winfield | 82 | Farmer | Influensa |
| Mar.6 | Dean (male) U.N. | Winfield | 3 mo. | -- | Whooping Cough |
| Mar.10 | Mary Lawton U.N. | Winfield | 69 | Housewife | Influensa |
| Mar.16 | Julia Bisby U.N. | Winfield | 3 | -- | Inflamation of Lungs |
| Mar.20 | David M. Weeks U.N. | Winfield | 3 | -- | Hydrothorax |
| Mar.24 | Aurilla Day M.N. | Winfield | 59 | Housewife | Dropsey of the Heart |
| Mar.- | Jonathan Miller U.N. | Winfield | 4 mo. | -- | Inflamation of Heart & Throat |
| Apr.14 | Ellen Maria Brown U.N. | Winfield | 1 | -- | Consumption |
| Apr.25 | Jane Randall M.N. | Winfield | 25 | Housewife | Consumption |
| May 10 | Ann L. Schooner U.N. | Winfield | 21 | Housework | Consumption |
| June 20 | Eliza Miller U.N. | Winfield | 8 | Housework | Inflamating Rheumatism |
| June 20 | Lydia Ames M.N. | Litchfield | 64 | Housewife | Consumption |
| Aug.27 | Benjamin Harrington M.N. | Winfield | 78 | Miller | Organic Disease of Stomach & Liver |
| Oct.16 | Byron Penny U.N. | Winfield | 4 da. | -- | Spasms |
| Nov.30 | Krill (male) U.N. | Winfield | 2 mo. | -- | Convulsions |
| Dec.27 | Asahel Bemis M.N. | Winfield | 69 | Farmer | Dropsy |
| Feb.6 | Calista Merrick M.N. | Winfield | 40 | Housekeeper | Consumption |
| Feb.10 | Charles H. Palmer U.N. | Winfield | 23 | Farmer | Diabetes |
| Feb.12 | Julia Ann Knight U.N. | Winfield | 2 | -- | Scarlet Fever |
| Feb.15 | Susan Amelia Davis U.N. | Winfield | 9mo. | -- | Croup |
| Feb.17 | Gertrude P. Miller U.N. | Cedarville | 2 | -- | Congestion of the Lungs |
| Feb.23 | David Howard M.N. | Winfield | 83 | Farmer | Affection of the Stomach |
| Feb.27 | William H. Woodward M.N. | Winfield | 41 | Farmer | Congestion of the Lungs |
| Feb.28 | Oliver Lwellynn Nicholas U.N. | Litchfield | 7 mo. | -- | Inflamation in the Head |
| Feb.28 | Nancy Rice M.N. | Winfield | 28 | -- | Child bed fever |
| Mar.? | Libarty Dixon U.N. | Winfield | 17 | Farmer | Inflamation of the Lungs |
| Mar.5 | (not given) U.N. | Winfield | 2 da. | -- | Unknown |
| Mar.9 | Mary Bayley M.F. | Winfield | 39 | Housewife | Cancer |
| Apr.18 | Abigail H. Pelton M.N. | Litchfield | 75 | Housewife | Dropsey of the Heart |
| May 12 | Elizabeth Golden M.N. | Litchfield | 31 | Housewife | Consumption |
| June 22 | Hiram W. Youngs U.N. | Winfield | 50 | Cooper | Delirium tremers |
| June 24 | Nathan Brown M.N. | Winfield | 84 | Farmer | Disease of Liver & Stomach |
| July 3 | James Reynolds U.F. | Bridgewater Oneida Co. | 35 | Laborer | Thrown from Wagon |
| July 9 | John Davis Jr. U.N. | Winfield | 11 | -- | Measles |
| July 14 | Rosena Burrows M.N. | Winfield | 57 | -- | General debility |
| July 25 | Welter (male) U.F. | Winfield | (infant) | -- | Unknown |
| Aug.13 | Nancy Fitch U.N. | Richfield Otsego Co. | 32 | -- | Affection of the Heart |
| Sept.15 | Elizabeth Ginby M.N. | Winfield | 42 | Housekeeper | Disease of the Throat |
| Sept.21 | Ordelia D. Chase M.F. | Bridgewater Oneida Co. | 26 | - - | Consumption |
| Oct.7 | Conrad Edick U.N. | Richfield Otsego Co. | 44 | Day Laborer | Cholera |
| Oct.13 | Mary Ann Luce U.N. | Winfield | 20 mo. | -- | Consumption |
| Nov.12 | Hellen Lusetta Golden U.N. | Litchfield | 6 | -- | Unknown |
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