Occasionally I have been asked about the causes of death most prevalent in our various family lines or the ages at which our ancestors most commonly passed on. Below is a sample of the information from the database and perhaps of no great statistical relevance, considering that most of the information is from the 19th century. Some have been included for interest, or because they have been included elsewhere on the site.
Name |
Date of Death |
Age |
Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldridge, Cornelia E. | 11/18/1900 | 55 | probably cancer |
| Alexander, Adam R. | 11/01/1848 | 67 | unknown |
| Alexander, Claude C. | 11/08/1868 | 5 | died in childhood |
| Alexander, George L. | 07/10/1970 | 74 | heart attack |
| Alexander, Henry L. | 10/03/1889 | 51 | swamp fever |
| Alexander, Hunter P. | 05/11/1922 | 55 | heart attack |
| Alexander, James F. | 07/10/1857 | 0 | stillborn |
| Alexander, James H. | 07/31/1911 | 96 | complications of a broken hip |
| Alexander, Jane Maria | 08/17/1853 | 41 | unknown |
| Alexander, John P. | 03/09/1844 | 0 | died in infancy |
| Alexander, Joseph M. | 09/12/1852 | 1 | died in infancy |
| Alexander, Lucy N. | 10/01/1876 | 31 | unknown |
| Alexander, Lucy N. | bef 1889 | c. 12 | pleurisy |
| Alexander, Martha H. | 07/05/1848 | 2 | died in infancy |
| Alexander, Mary R. | 04/17/1900 | 0 | smallpox |
| Alexander, Olivia L. | 03/15/1928 | 87 | complications of advanced age? |
| Alexander, Rebecca C. | 1970 | 77 | complications after a fall |
| Ashley, Annabelle | 10/04/1922 | 41 | blood poisoning from sitting on a hat pin |
| Edmunds, Annie T. | 03/04/1935 | 74 | stomach cancer |
| Eno, John C. | 02/28/1914 | 66 | unknown |
| Hawley, Anna May | c. 1947 | 78 | unknown |
| Hodges, Carl E. | 08/30/1994 | 80 | unknown |
| Hodges, Guy B. | 06/08/1957 | 69 | unknown |
| Hodges, Harold G. | 09/1996 | 76 | unknown |
| Jenkins, Agnes E. | 07/17/1842 | 5 | died in childhood |
| Jenkins, Walter N. | 05/24/1864 | 32 | killed in Civil War |
| Lanier, Priscilla D. | 02/27/1915 | 84 | senility |
| Lea, Abraham M. | 03/29/1759 | 4 | died in childhood |
| Lea, Alice | 12/25/1857 | 3 | died in childhood |
| Lea, Alice M. | c. 1970 | c. 94 | complications of advanced age? |
| Lea, Claudia W. | 03/31/1955 | 82 | acute intestinal obstruction (21 days) due to carcinoma of colon (unknown duration). Other significant conditions: cirrhosis of liver |
| Lea, Edward | 08/07/1867 | 15 | drowned in the Brandywine near Wilmington, DE |
| Lea, Elizabeth | 11/28/1796 | 71 | unknown |
| Lea, Elizabeth | 08/16/1805 | 60 | unknown |
| Lea, George | 09/03/1804 | 14 | unknown |
| Lea, Hannah | 12/13/1763 | 58 | unknown |
| Lea, Henry C. | 10/24/1909 | 84 | complications of advanced age? |
| Lea, Gov. Preston | 12/04/1916 | 75 | unknown |
| McCreight, Dorothy W. | 03/17/1980 | 68 | unknown |
| McCullough, Edith L. | 07/09/1979 | 85 | complications of advanced age? |
| McCullough, Elizabeth B. | 02/23/1960 | 76 | unknown |
| McCullough, Evan Lewis | 07/29/1869 | 60 | unknown |
| McCullough, Evan Linn | 04/17/1894 | 45 | unknown |
| McCullough, Frank O. | 1939 | 84 | complications of advanced age? |
| McCullough, Gladys | 05/05/1984 | 87 | stroke |
| McCullough, Hugh | 04/30/1945 | 56 | unknown |
| McCullough, Hugh, Jr. | 02/16/1983 | 68 | unknown |
| McCullough, John B. | 02/02/1873 | 21 | unknown |
| McCullough, Maibelle C. | 02/04/1988 | 88 | unknown |
| McCullough, Marguerite | 11/23/1953 | 51 | ALS |
| McCullough, W. J. II | 06/26/1915 | 3 | brain injury from a fall |
| McCullough, W. J. | 11/25/1903 | 43 | stroke |
| McCullough, Woodward H. | 08/23/1928 | 75 | unknown |
| McNeely, Maggie | 05/1982 | 82 | unknown |
| Moore, Adelaide | 10/15/1888 | 42 | unknown |
| Newland, Robert C. | 09/1846 | unknown | accidental poisoning |
| Orr, William | c. 1904 | unknown | shot by an angry neighbor |
| Peel, Albert L. | 05/12/1864 | 22 | killed in Civil War |
| Peel, Andrew J. | 04/17/1882 | 42 | unknown |
| Peel, Ellen | 01/06/1929 | 82 | complications of a broken hip |
| Peel, Fannie | 07/12/1856 | 1 | died in infancy |
| Peel, Hunter | 03/09/1831 | 45 | unknown |
| Peel, John C. | 11/03/1854 | 20 | unknown |
| Peel, John C. | 10/13/1855 | 0 | died in infancy |
| Peel, Mary E. | 09/20/1851 | 21 | unknown |
| Peel, Robert H. | 11/05/1903 | 71 | unknown |
| Peel, Thomas J. | 07/06/1862 | 24 | killed in Civil War |
| Peel, Volney, Jr. (1) | 05/20/1844 | 8 | died in childhood |
| Peel, Volney, Sr. | 01/12/1846 | 40 | bronchitis |
| Peel, William H.(2) | 08/18/1923 | 74 | unknown |
| Peel, William H.(3) | 07/11/1952 | 68 | unknown |
| Phelps, Abigail | 08/16/1756 | 101 | complications of advanced age? |
| Phelps, Alexander | 02/25/1852 | 82 | complications of advanced age? |
| Phelps, Arthur D. | 10/31/1880 | 21 | unknown |
| Phelps, Claudia L. | 09/14/1984 | 90 | congestive heart failure |
| Phelps, David, Sr. | 12/09/1760 | 50 | smallpox |
| Phelps, David (1) | 07/19/1732 | 0 | died in infancy |
| Phelps, David (2) | 04/17/1811 | 78 | unknown |
| Phelps, Dorothy | 1983 | 93 | complications of advanced age? |
| Phelps, Eleanor S. | 01/23/1967 | 71 | breast cancer |
| Phelps, Francis | 04/05/1848 | 4 | died in childhood |
| Phelps, Irving | 04/04/1999 | 75 | stroke (?) |
| Phelps, Isaac N. | 08/01/1888 | 86 | complications of advanced age? |
| Phelps, John | 04/30/1679 | 16 | unknown |
| Phelps, John | 01/05/1712-13 | 5 | died in childhood |
| Phelps, John J., I | 05/12/1869 | 58 | unknown |
| Phelps, John J., II | 04/03/1948 | 86 | a brief illness |
| Phelps, Marian | 04/01/1922 | 53 | complications of diabetes |
| Phelps, Mary | 01/09/1712-13 | 16 | unknown |
| Phelps, Mercy | 04/15/1662 | 0 | died in infancy |
| Phelps, Rose | 1952 | 57 | unknown |
| Phelps, Sarah | 01/14/1701-02 | 1 | died in infancy |
| Phelps, Sheffield | 12/09/1902 | 38 | typhoid fever contracted after drinking well water |
| Phelps, William | 10/08/1689 | 15 | unknown |
| Phelps, William W., I | 06/17/1894 | 54 | tuberculosis |
| Phelps, William W., II | 03/13/1975 | 81 | complications of advanced age? |
| Phelps, William W., III | 1982 | 64 | heart attack |
| Polk, Olivia M. | 06/11/1828 | 26 | unknown |
| Prediger, Mary | 09/1843 | c.35 | malaria |
| Prediger, Sarah | 10/1843 | c.30 | malaria |
| Schwind, Amelia R. | 09/14/1958 | 93 | senility |
| Sheffield, Charles J. | 07/26/1895 | 50 | unknown |
| Sheffield, Ellen Maria | 08/31/1920 | 82 | complications of advanced age? |
| Sheffield, Florence | 04/25/1928 | 87 | complications of advanced age? |
| Sheffield, George St. John | 12/14/1924 | 82 | complications of advanced age? |
| Sheffield, Harriet C. | 01/08/1901 | 70 | unknown |
| Sheffield, Henry K. | 03/22/1841 | 5 | died in childhood |
| Sheffield, Joseph E. | 02/16/1882 | 88 | complications of advanced age? |
| Sheffield, Josephine E. | 05/30/1908 | 73 | unknown |
| Sheffield, Mary H. | 03/28/1848 | 15 | unknown |
| Smith, Nancy V. | 08/31/1933 | 67 | ALS |
| Spruance, Preston Lea | 10/05/1998 | 88 | complications of advanced age? |
| Spruance, William C. | 01/09/1935 | 61 | unknown |
| Stevenson, Eberle U. | 07/25/1981 | 87 | complications of advanced age? |
| Tate, Nancy H. | 10/1881 | 77 | dysentery |
| Vining, Frances C. | 10/16/1895 | 28 | complications following childbirth |
| Vining, George J. | 03/15/1915 | 78 | pneumonia |
| Vining, George J., Jr. | 02/02/1938 | 68 | unknown |
| Vining, Mary Ellen | 01/01/1951 | 84 | complications of advanced age? |
| Vining, Thomas W. | 12/19/1893 | 61 | unknown |
| Von Rottenburg, Franz | 02/14/1907 | 62 | heart attack |
| Wilds, Claudia P. | 06/08/1997 | 65 | cancer (lung/breast) |
| Wilds, Edwin L. | 01/08/1991 | 88 | unknown |
| Wilds, Louis T., I | 06/28/1928 | 69 | stroke |
| Wilds, Louis T., II | 01/11/1953 | 67 | unknown |
| Wilds, Louis T., III | 10/05/1999 | 81 | emphysema |
| Wilds, Margaret I. | 09/09/1986 | 82 | complications of advanced age? |
| Wilds, Marion E. | 04/04/1983 | 87 | complications of advanced age? |
| Wilds, Mary C. | 04/23/1956 | 64 | unknown |
| Wilds, Robert H., Sr. | 11/01/1949 | 65 | pancreatic cancer |
| Wilds, Robert H., Jr. | 11/24/1944 | 28 | shot down in Ploiesti Oil Field Raid, Romania, WW2 |
| Wilds, Samuel H., I | 10/19/1867 | 47 | wounds & privations of prison suffered in Civil War |
| Wilds, Samuel H., II | 11/21/1982 | 96 | complications of advanced age? |
| Wilds, Samuel H. | 1913 | 56 | unknown |
| Wilds, Sheffield P. | 08/13/2000 | 75 | lung cancer |
| Wilds, Sue D. | 10/19/1981 | 81 | complications of advanced age? |
| Wilds, Theodore D. | 04/08/1975 | 68 | unknown |
| Woodward, Frances O. | 03/19/1868 | 44 | unknown |