Deaths 1888

Deaths

Registered in Natick, 1888

Date	Name	Age			Disease or Cause of Death
		Y	M	D
January 1	Rogers child			1/2	Premature birth
3	Richard C. Allen	53	8	4	General debility
8	Henry Kearns		8		Croupous pneumonia
11	William Swenson	1		8	Eutero colitis
14	Thomas Doyle	30			Consumption
15	Eliza J. Houghton	61	1	10	Cancer
15	Daniel Mahoney	48			Apoplexy
15	John Millerick	1	8		Scarlet fever
15	Peter F. Mullen	4	8		Diphtheria
17	Freddie M. Wadell	9	10		Cancer of bladder
18	Nellie T. Scannell	22		5	Phthisis pulmonalis
19	Steiger child				asphyxia
19	Jane B. Olmstead	81	3		Old age
20	Joseph P. Conroy	1		15	Croup
24	Patrick E. McCarthy		1	1	Spina bifida
24	Isabella Gertrude Whitney		3	8	Congenital
26	Grace Nye Steiger	28	10	14	Pneumonia and puerperal fever
30	Anna Eames Walcott	60	1	9	Phthisis
30	David Fiske	77	3		Apoplexy
February 2	Charlotte B. Partridge	84	11	21	Cardiac failure
3	Elsie Mabel Mann	1	11	7	Scarlatina
4	John Donahoe	48			Heart and kidney disease
6	Murphy child	1/2 hr			exhaustion-premature birth
6	Ann Taff	54	6		Anaemia
7	William Gray	63	2		Bright's disease
13	Mary Sweetland	86	11	11	Apoplexy
16	Eddie O'Donnell	2	2	23	Diphtheria
16	Abigail Ward	89	7	12	Acute bronchitis with heart disease
17	Timothy D. Diely		1	27	Heart disease
18	Bridget Connors	2	2	14	Scarlet fever
21	Jennie Oakes		9	27	Scarlatina
23	Eldora J. Hanscom	43	5	22	Cancer of uterus
24	Charles Howard Pierce	19	3	14	Meningitis
24	Albert Mullen	2	5		Diphtheria and scarlet fever
25	Willard Moore	58	2	20	Pneumonia
29	Alice McCue	1	5	1	Pneumonia
March 4	Susan W. French	72	2	4	Cardiac failure
4	Hanora Kelley	50			Pulmonary apoplexy
4	Joseph Daggle				Apnoea neonatorum
12	Nathaniel Smith	76	3	12	Phthisis
15	Ella N. Jolliffe	49			Meningitis tubercular
16	Elvira C. Beal	74	8	22	Cerebral hemorrhage
16	Stoddard child				stillborn
21	John William Bacon	69	8		Apoplexy
25	George W. Bates	72	6		Bright's disease
25	Alice Kane	2	10	16	Scarlet fever
28	Samuel O. Daniels	43	4	17	Apoplexy
30	Dutton childs				stillborn
April 2	Frank Thompson	3	8		Ulceration of stomach
2	Declan D. Barry	36			Bronchitis
5	John Millerick	29			Phthisis
6	Brennan child			5	Asthenia
6	Parnelle child				Stillborn
7	Gertie White		2		Spina bifida
13	Herman Heinlein	48		18	Complication of diseases-consumption
13	Austin Bacon	76	2		Abdominal disease-probably malignant
14	William W. Clark	23	9	14	Consumption
16	China Ware Harris	73	3	4	Apoplexy
21	James Currier	81	6		Old age
21	Lydia Towne	73	9		Pneumonia
21	Anna Childs	14	4	3	Phthisis
25	Margaret Spruhan	55			Heart disease
27	Leonard Morse	71	3		Apoplexy
May 3	Lena La Plant	8	8		Diphtheria
4	Hannah M. Quinlan	33			Phthisis
4	Thomas McNichols	44			General debility
4	Edgar W. Hammond	38	3	26	Phthisis
8	Nancy B. Forbes	62	11		Pneumonia
8	Margaret J. Parker	60	11		Parenchymetom nephriitis
12	Lewis Fish	36	1		Phthisis
13	Alvin C. Preston	34	9		Typhoid fever
16	John Arnold	58	8	3	Phthisis
16	Patrick Slamin	63			Heart disease
18	Bridget Tuohill	77			Old age
22	Kittie Lanagan	2	2	12	Convulsions
26	Mary Barnicle	42	8	5	Uterine cancer
26	Fred H. Jordan	37			not stated
26	Betsey C. Hartford	68		17	Meningitis
28	Eliza J. Parker	78	1	14	Paralysis
29	Joseph Jones	73	2		Apoplexy
June 8	Warner child				Stillborn
11	Jonas Hastings	74	1		Bright's disease
11	William D. Woodcock	76		28	Old age
13	Royal T. Brooks	50			Chronic nephritis
18	George E. Knowlton		6	12	Meningitis
22	Amory M. Valentine	56		28	Apoplexy
23	Mary A. Ahern	33		26	Rheumatism
28	Mary F. Holland	1	4	27	Measles
July 8	Samuel W. Hardy	73	11		General senile
8	Luey R. Hickox	71	2	7	Drowning-suicidal
20	Peter Barnicle			3	Inanition
21	Crocker child				Stillborn
21	Isaac M. Gay	61	11		Consumption
22	Eliza C. Smith	86	11	19	Heart disease
25	Patrick Skahill	73			Supposed old age
29	Sarah R. Forrester	88	1		Apoplexy
29	Ellis' child				Stillborn
30	Ellen Cunniff			20	not stated
31	George Forsyth		4	14	Cholera infantum
August 6	Henry W. Brown		9	21	Diarrhea
7	Richard Collins Healey		8		Cholera infantum
9	William Houlihan	1	2	5	Cholera infantum
9	Ellen Meagher	30			Railroad accident. Struck by the Saxonville p.m. train.
9	Mary Meagher	27
14	Emily Thompson	81	4		Nephritis
17	Mary F. Miles	48	1		Peritonitis
19	Catherine Hart	64			Dysentery
	Henry Hennessey, supposed	32			Skeleton found in Jennings' swamp, near Weston, in August, 1888, supposed, after inquiry, to be the remains of said Hennessey, of Boston
21	Sarah Riley	84			Old age
22	Gertrude I. Wood	3	3	16	General infantile paralysis
24	Charlotte A. Jewell	59	2	6	General debility
26	Caroline R. Morse	79			Old age
29	Harriet E. Huntoon	69	1	27	Apoplexy and paralysis
31	Walter Topham		3		Dropsy of brain
31	James Garvey				Asthenia
September 3	Eunice Stone	92	2	3	Old age
6	Hollis Fiske Johnson			24	Inanition
11	Alice V. Whitcomb	37	4		Diabetes mellitus
16	James H. Green	2	8	16	Croup
24	Ellen Flanagan	3	7	24	Pneumonia
25	Mary E. Blodgett	19	6	25	Pneumonia and heart disease
30	Freeman S. Whitney	76	7		Heart disease
October 2	Nora E. Buckley	27	9		Phthisis
3	Charles H. Turner		1	14	Inanition
6	Isaac Felch	82	10		Visceral pulmonic paralysis
11	James W. Valentine	51	6		Localized softening of brain
11	Edward R. Seaver	52			Phthisis
13	Lovina M. Johnson	70	2		Uraemia
13	Collins Morse	80	7		Old age
14	Thomas Sullivan	70			Consumption
15	Florence J. Buckley	25	5	28	Phthisis
17	Willie Buckley	3			Membraneous croup
18	Frank H. Cowhey	28			Consumption
22	Peter A. Emanuelson	40	6		Cancer
23	Eliot Walker	87	6		Railroad accident
November 2	Ferdinand Jacob Boinay	1	10	24	Infammatory croup
5	Glidden child				stillborn
8	Lola Ann Jackson	39	7	13	Phthisis
13	Emma Murphy	1	5	15	Psuedo-membraneous laryngitis
15	Beal child				Stillborn
19	Mary E. Roberts	14	10	13	Diabetes
21	Catherine Burns	61	10	26	Senile debiltiy
22	Patrick Hartigan	66			Cerebro-spinal schlerosis
23	Charles G. Thayer	61	9	18	Heart disease
23	Mary Ritter	58			Chronic bright's disease
25	Sarah Wade	78	10	7	Heart disease
27	George Languay	27			Pneumonia
December 4	Nancy O. Mills	73			Consumption
7	Charles L. Gow			6	Pneumonia
7	Michael Ahern	63			Softening of brain
10	Mary E. Cody	28			Valvular disease of heart
12	Eliza S. Stedman	87	9	20	Heart failure
18	Julian A. Blandin	46	3	3	Rheumatic indocarditis
19	John Keanealy	39			Rheumatic carditis
19	Julia Kelliher	73			Pneumonia
25	Sarah E. White	46	3		Paralysis
27	Clarence M. Jordan	33	7		Phthisis
28	Harriet Hurd	83			Old age
30	Walter B. Damon	2	11	13	Croupous pneumonia
31	Ann Cooper	9			Brain disease
*1887*	*Ommited Last year*
March 14	George Fairbank	65	10	20	Bright's disease

Males, 85; Females, 77; total, 162, again 145 last year; an increase of 17, which may readily be accounted for as the natural result of our augmented population.

A careful inspection of the death record for 1888 will show that the Grim Destroyer has been unusually busy among our citizens who have earned prominence in life, local and otherwise. Our most distinguished townsman of recent years, Judge Bacon, died on duty, and the proceedings of the meeting relative to that event will be found on the records of the town. James W. Valentine, a veteran town officer, was called away, regretted by a host of friends to whom his genial qualities and undoubted talents had endeared him. The venerable Isaac Felch, who represented Natick in the General Court in 1856, Nathaniel Smith, Freeman S. Whitney, and Eunice Stone, departed in the fullness of years. Austin Bacon, whose knowledge of local history was excelled by none, Leonard Morse, the proprietor of Masonic block and a successful man of business, have been gathered to their fathers, while the sudden taking off of Eliot Walker was an abrupt and tragic ending of an uncommonly lengthened life. The familiar faces of Tyler Brooks, S. Olney Daniels, Jonas Hastings and Charles G. Thayer, will be missed by many friends, while the quaint and juicy humor of George W. Bates will long remain a pleasing reminiscence to the two generations that have enjoyed it. Among the foreign born, Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Riley, Mrs. Kelliher and Mrs. Ritter, were old time residents; Thomas Sullivan could remember when Natick was a merely scattered village, while D. D. Barry and John Kenealy were both young business men of enterprise and ability.

The violent deaths numbered 4, one suicide and three by railroad accident. A certain mystery surrounds the skeleton found in Jennings' swamp, but there is little doubt that the remains were those of Hennessey. A greater mystery attaches to the human bones and skull found by Road Commissioner Brown in the gravel bank of the north side of Worcester street, just were of Elm Park. This skeleton was dug out casually while loading gravel and was about fifty feet north of the line of the road, and had been buried five feet under the surface. The remains were brought to the selectmen's room and inspected by many of the town officers and medial men. The skull was in a good state of preservation, and there was an evident fracture of the same just above and behind one of the ears. The conclusion was almost inevitable that the person had been struck on the head by some instrument and deposited in that lonesome place many years ago. No record of this is made in the column of deaths for the reason that no return is possible from undertaker, sexton or doctor, and all facts are, of necessity, certified unknown.