Maine Genealogy
Source: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of South Portland, Maine for the Financial Year 1915-1916 (Portland, Me., 1916).
[p. 82]DEATHS1915
Feb. 5. Stephen H. Knapp, 90 yrs., 1 mo., 29 days, valvular disease of heart.
[Feb.] 6. Bertha Elizabeth Grover, 8 days, premature birth.
[Feb.] 8. Thomas B. Haskell, 75 yrs., cerebral apoplexy.
[Feb.] 8. John F. Varney, 80 yrs., 7 days, arterio sclerosis.
[Feb.] 11. Frances Abbie Newcomb, 69 yrs., 8 mos., 26 days, senility.
[Feb.] 14. Hannah Perkins Lunn, 76 yrs., 4 mos., 7 days, cerebral embolism.
[Feb.] 17. Richard C. St. John, 59 yrs., 4 mos., 5 days, valvular disease of heart.
[Feb.] 20. John Ward, 45 yrs., 5 mos., 4 days, accidental drowning.
[Feb.] 21. Adam W. Barbour, 86 yrs., general breaking down following apoplexy.
Mar. 2. Everett T. Grover, 21 yrs., 17 days, valvular disease of heart.
[Mar.] 5. Cornelius Desmond, 64 yrs., 6 mos., 22 days, malignant growth of stomach.
[Mar.] 5. Alonzo Davis Knight, 56 yrs., 3 mos., 7 days, chronic Bright's disease.[p. 83][Mar.] 10. Melissa Grover, 56 yrs., 5 mos., 19 days, diphtheria.
[Mar.] 12. James W. Smith, 37 yrs., 1 mo., 4 days, pulmonary tuberculosis.
[Mar.] 12. Augusta E. Clark, 75 yrs., acute indigestion.
[Mar.] 18. Neal L. Wilson, 14 yrs., 11 mos., 9 days, rheumatic fever.
[Mar.] 21. Arlene Marie Brackett, 9 mos., 4 days, bronchopneumonia.
[Mar.] 23. David Peterson, 92 yrs., 6 mos., 26 days, apoplexy.
[Mar.] 30. Margaret Elinor Crockett, 12 days, inanition.
[Mar.] 30. Lillian Marion Griffin, 17 yrs., 3 mos., 7 days, broken compensation of heart with acute nephritis, following pneumonia.
[Mar.] 31. George W. Doughty, 72 yrs., 6 mos., 20 days, valvular disease of heart.
Apr. 1. Caroline Frances Hunt, 1 yr., 6 mos., 20 days, pneumonia.
[Apr.] 3. Harry Partridge, 40 yrs., 1 day, pneumonia.
[Apr.] 4. Thomas F. Jones, 3 yrs., 7 mos., scarlet fever.
[Apr.] 6. Infant McCallum, stillborn.
[Apr.] 7. Anna W. Kilfeder, 78 yrs., 5 days, arterio sclerosis.
[Apr.] 8. Adrianna C. Baker, 34 yrs., 7 mos., 22 days, typhoid fever.
[Apr.] 12. Kenneth MacDonald, 74 yrs., chronic myocarditis.
[Apr.] 17. Lucy T. Skillin, 63 yrs., 7 mos., 21 days, la grippe.
[Apr.] 18. Levi Libby, 68 yrs., 4 mos., 17 days, pneumonia.
[Apr.] 21. Annie M. Wallace, 48 yrs., pneumonia.
[Apr.] 22. Mildred G. O'Neil, 1 day, premature birth.
[Apr.] 25. Oliver Berry Mills, 71 yrs., 27 days, cerebral hemorrhage.
Date unknown. Child found at low water, premature birth.
May 12. Henry L. Emerton, 1 yr., 11 mos., 5 days, tuberculous meningitis.
[May] 12. Addie L. Miller, 67 yrs., 9 mos., 10 days, pneumonia.
[May] 13. Mary K. Curll, 3 yrs., 7 mos., lobar pneumonia.[p. 84][May] 14. Tony Vella, 2 mos., 23 days, probably indigestion (no physician).
[May] 19. Edith Augusta Kennedy, 51 yrs., 3 mos., 1 day, intestinal obstruction.
[May] 21. Mary F. Snow, 77 yrs., 1 mo., 27 days, mitral insufficiency and chronic nephritis.
[May] 23. Emeline Whitney, 86 yrs., 8 mos., senility.
June 1. Mary A. Deneill, 30 yrs., pulmonary tuberculosis.
[June] 1. Charles A. Jewett, 62 yrs., anaemia.
[June] 3. Frances E. Donnell, 74 yrs., 8 mos., 13 days, chronic nephritis.
[June] 9. Phyllis M. Mahan, 1 yr., 10 mos., 22 days, pneumonia.
[June] 9. Wilson G. Webber, 68 yrs., blood poison from infected leg.
[June] 9. Callie A. Littlefield, 54 yrs., 9 mos., 2 days, chronic bronchitis.
[June] 11. Annie Elizabeth Merrill, 80 yrs., 7 mos., 26 days, general paralysis.
[June] 11. Joel Southard, 78 yrs., 4 mos., 10 days, valvular disease of heart.
[June] 12. Infant Murphy, stillborn.
[June] 24. Jessie M. Campbell, 18 yrs., 6 mos., tubercular nephritis.
[June] 29. James F. Burt, 59 yrs., 6 mos., 5 days, valvular disease of heart.
July 2. Florence Bertha Blake, 19 yrs., phthisis.
[July] 8. Richard B. Lewis, 3 days, inanition.
[July] 9. Frances E. Edwards, 78 yrs., 2 mos., fracture of femur.
[July] 19. Mary Brander Henderson, 68 yrs., 7 mos., 12 days, valvular disease of heart.
[July] 20. William Lemuel Richardson, 77 yrs., 11 mos., 20 days, chronic nephritis.
[July] 22. Angus Nicholson, 68 yrs., dilation of heart.
[July] 23. Ellen G. Cummings, 77 yrs., uraemia.[p. 85][July] 23. Cora J. Lubee, 44 yrs., 6 mos., 20 days, myocarditis.
[July] 31. George G. Sawyer, 70 yrs., 9 mos., 14 days, cholecystitis.
Aug. 6. Phyllis Altheer Oliver, 3 mos., 3 days, inanition.
[Aug.] 13. Elijah Soule Hamilton, 85 yrs., 1 day, arterio sclerosis.
[Aug.] 14. Hattie E. Crockett, 51 yrs., cancer of pelvic cavity.
[Aug.] 24. Ida M. MacFarland, 44 yrs., 9 mos., 11 days, starvation (insanity).
[Aug.] 24. Georgianna Robinson, 49 yrs., paralysis.
[Aug.] 31. Eleanor Morett Studley, 4 yrs., 10 mos., 14 days, exhaustion (caused by ptomaine poison).
[Aug.] 31. Charles G. Kenney, 70 yrs., 2 mos., chronic nephritis.
Sept. 2. John S. Parsons, 81 yrs., 2 mos., 6 days, unknown, but natural causes, senility.
[Sept.] 5. Infant Weir, premature birth.
[Sept.] 12. Etta Louise Kutchen, 10 mos., 26 days, sudden death, cause unknown.
[Sept.] 12. Frederick W. Roberts, 62 yrs., 6 mos., cerebral apoplexy — secondary to arterio sclerosis and chronic interstitial nephritis.
[Sept.] 20. Martha C. Coolbroth, 78 yrs., 3 mos., 24 days, myxoedema.
[Sept.] 25. Charles H. Parker, 66 yrs., 10 mos., 25 days., chronic nephritis.
[Sept.] 25. Estreff Baruim, 22 yrs., internal hemorrhage, railroad accident.
[Sept.] 29. Sarah Jane Palmer, 67 yrs., 24 days, mechanical intestinal obstruction.
Oct. 6. Infant Moody, stillborn.
[Oct.] 7. Jacob Richard Frost, 83 yrs., 1 day, arterio sclerosis.
[Oct.] 9. George Sidney Beale, Jr., 3 mos., 15 days, suppurative adenitis, cause cholera infantum.
[Oct.] 22. James P. Bogan, 74 yrs., 5 mos., 7 days, aortic insufficiency.[p. 86][Oct.] 25. James H. Syphers, 77 yrs., 10 mos., 18 days, apoplexy.
[Oct.] 26. Infant Paige, stillborn.
[Oct.] 30. Nathan R. Dyer, 82 yrs., 11 mos., 8 days, malignant growth of rectum.
[Oct.] 30. Gertrude A. MacFarland, 5 yrs., 7 mos., 15 days, acute bronchitis.
Nov. 1. Ida Thompson, 64 yrs., 9 mos., 17 days, chronic gastro-intestinal catarrh.
[Nov.] 2. Ann Black, 73 yrs., senility.
[Nov.] 7. Charles W. York, 64 yrs., 4 mos., 21 days, chronic nephritis.
[Nov.] 11. Harry Norris Clement, 5 mos., 18 days, pneumonia, probably tuberculous.
[Nov.] 12. Newell E. Sargent, 4 yrs., 10 mos., 24 days, accidental drowning.
[Nov.] 16. Franklin W. Dyer, 73 yrs., 4 days, epithelioma.
[Nov.] 16. Lydia A. Hunnewell, 64 yrs., 9 mos., 16 days, pulmonary tuberculosis.
[Nov.] 16. George W. Doughty, 73 yrs., 6 mos., 18 days, angina pectoris.
[Nov.] 18. John F. Woodbury, 65 yrs., 4 mos., 5 days, valvular disease of heart.
[Nov.] 23. Joseph T. Coolbroth, 3 mos., 19 days, inanition.
[Nov.] 24. Annie L. Hannaford, 46 yrs., 4 mos., 28 days, pulmonary tuberculosis.
[Nov.] 24. Isabelle F. Woodbury, 60 yrs., 8 mos., 2 days, chronic nephritis.
[Nov.] 24. Clifford W. Hamilton, 3 yrs., 1 mo., 25 days, diphtheria.
[Nov.] 27. Myra A. Sawyer, 58 yrs., 1 mo., insanity.
[Nov.] 30. Infant Wigle, stillborn.
Dec. 3. Seth B. Day, 76 yrs., 10 mos., 71 days, acute nephritis.
[Dec.] 6. Infant Reid, premature birth.
[Dec.] 7. Infant Bartlett, premature birth.[p. 87][Dec.] 8. Francis A. Bremon, 83 yrs., 10 mos., 12 days, valvular disease of heart.
[Dec.] 9. Moses Field, 78 yrs., 3 mos., 27 days, arterio sclerosis.
[Dec.] 11. Mary Ellen Blake, 58 yrs., 3 mos., 4 days, cancer of breast.
[Dec.] 13. Norton Newell, 4 mos., 6 days, acute bronchitis.
[Dec.] 15. Infant Larrabee, stillborn.
[Dec.] 17. Charles S. Libby, 59 yrs., 5 mos., chronic nephritis.
[Dec.] 20. Russell Irwin Keeler, Jr., 5 yrs., 3 mos., 4 days, streptococcus sore throat (chicken pox).
[Dec.] 26. Charles E. Skillings, 74 yrs., 5 mos., 24 days, acute indigestion.
1916.
Jan. 1. Lysander A. Gould, 62 yrs., 4 mos., 6 days, cardio renal disease.
[Jan.] 2. Fannie R. Bolton, 64 yrs., 2 mos., 13 days, lobar pneumonia.
[Jan.] 4. James R. Peters, 66 yrs., apoplexy.
[Jan.] 13. John Cash, 61 yrs., 1 mo., 1 day, chronic Bright's disease (kidney and heart).
[Jan.] 13. Eliza Jane Longley, 67 yrs., 9 mos., 9 days, chronic valvular disease of heart.
[Jan.] 14. Roswell Benson, 59 yrs., 5 mos., 23 days, pneumonia.
[Jan.] 14. George W. Chandler, 75 yrs., 9 mos., 28 days, cirrhosis of liver.
[Jan.] 15. Infant Parks, 2 days, premature birth.
[Jan.] 15. Vena May Gary, 29 yrs., 5 mos., 1 day, pulmonary tuberculosis.
[Jan.] 19. George Ryall, 25 yrs., 10 mos., 12 days, chronic Bright's disease.
[Jan.] 20. Ada A. Ryall, 47 yrs., 9 mos., 1 day, cancer of uterus.
[Jan.] 22. Geo. Edward Vayo, premature birth.
[Jan.] 30. Geo. F. Williams, 58 yrs., 5 mos., 23 days, pernicious anaemia.
[Jan.] 31. Celia Ann Hatch, 64 yrs., 5 mos., 24 days, acute bronchitis.[p. 88]DIED IN PORTLAND.Feb. 4. William M. McCracken, 66 yrs., pneumonia.
[Feb.] 23. John J. Kelley, Sr., 55 yrs., 4 mos., 14 days, accident, run over by freight car.
Mar. 30. Amelia E. Blaisdell, 62 yrs., hemorrhage of brain.
Apr. 28. Ethel May Tonneson, 29 yrs., 9 mos., 10 days, congestion of brain erysipelas.
[Apr.] 29. Clinton L. Tewksbury, 67 yrs., 6 mos., 17 days, chronic nephritis.
May 15. Charles F. Lowell, 39 yrs., organic heart disease (acute alcoholism).
[May] 26. Cherne G. Judelshon, 56 yrs., pulmonary tuberculosis.
July 15. Edward Milton Dellow Verge, 21 yrs., 10 mos., 6 days, shock from burns by fire.
[July] 17. John F. Dyer, 74 yrs., 7 days, submersion-arterio sclerosis, uraemia.
Aug. 31. Charles F. Greenstreet, 31 yrs., 27 days, gas gangrene, following gun shot.
Oct. 4. Irwin McLaughlin Foye, 2 hours, asphyxia neonatorum (very hard labor).
[Oct.] 20. Drusilla Mullens, 77 yrs., 5 mos., 20 days, valvular disease of heart.
[Oct.] 28. Georgia O. Simpson, 51 yrs., 8 mos., 27 days, strangulated intestines with perforations.
Nov. 9. Margaret E. York, 60 yrs., acute peritonitis.
Dec. 6. Frederick E. Libby, 60 yrs., cancer of stomach and intestines.
1916.
Jan. 4. Christina W. Jordan, 55 yrs., 9 mos., 12 days, cerebral hemorrhage, arterio schlerosis.
[Jan.] 6. Earl Nelson Bean, 5 yrs., 9 mos., 8 days, pneumococcus infection.
[Jan.] 26. Elizabeth A. Sturtevant, 78 yrs., lobar pneumonia.
[Jan.] 26. Matilda Hannaford, 79 yrs., 6 mos., 22 days, cancer of liver.[p. 89]DIED IN EVERETT, MASS.Feb. 2. Nellie May Bartol, 54 yrs., 5 mos., 30 days, lobar ether pneumonia.DIED IN CUMBERLAND, ME.Feb. 27. Julia Pahia, 22 yrs., 9 mos., 22 days, pericarditis.
Apr. 12 or 15. Fannie Whitmore, 55 or 56 yrs., suicide by drowning.DIED IN BOSTON, MASS.Feb. 19. Harvey J. McLearn, 37 yrs., 6 mos., 26 days, meningitis, broncho-pneumonia.
Sept. 2. Russell Leroy Laidlaw, 1 yr., 1 mo., 24 days, cong. dilation of colon.DIED IN BELLINGHAM, MASS.Apr. 16. Abbie D. Brown, 57 yrs., 10 mos., 7 days, Bright's disease.DIED IN WESTBROOK, ME.June 5. Daniel S. Graffam, 67 yrs., 3 mos., 11 days, acute myocarditis.DIED IN GORHAM, ME.July 25. Emma Paine Libby, 58 yrs., apoplexy.
Nov. 1. Martha Ellen Whitney, 83 yrs., 4 mos., 28 days, senile debility.DIED AT GREAT CHEBEAGUE ISLAND, ME.Sept. 11. Sarah E. Delano, 60 yrs., 6 mos., insanity.DIED AT FRAMINGHAM, MASS.Sept. 23. Henrietta I. Woodworth, 47 yrs., 10 mos., 14 days, cardio renal disease, overcome by heat.DIED IN ELIOT, ME.Nov. 20. Joseph Albert Corey, 62 yrs., 9 mos., 12 days, apoplexy.DIED IN AUGUSTA, ME.Dec. 13. James H. Harford, 67 yrs., suicide by drowning.DIED IN EAST PARSONSFIELD, ME.Dec. 15. Allen Cribby, 27 yrs., 10 mos., 16 days, pulmonary tuberculosis.
