Apoplexy: A seizure caused by a cerebrovascular accident. A stroke, as if struck by the gods. A sudden paralysis.

Bilious fever: An excessive amount of bile in the system with a fever. Typhoid was occasionally called "bilious fever" in eighteenth century Europe, and yellow fever was called "autumnal bilious fever" in 1668 New York.

Brain fever: Meningitis or encephalitis.

Cholera: An acute, infectious disease characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, and cramps. Cholera is spread by feces-contaminated water and food. Major epidemics struck the United States in the years 1832, 1849, and 1866. The last major epidemic in the U.S. east was 1866.

Congestive Fever: Malaria.

Congestive Chill: Cold, shivering, can lead to pneumonia.

Consumption (phthisis pulmonalia, pulmonary tuberculosis): Tuberculosis. The term "Consumption" was commonly used in the days when there was no effective treatment of the disease. Here the body was consumed or gradually wasted away.

Cramp Colic: Appendicitis.

Croup: An obstructive condition of the larynx (voice box) or trachea (windpipe), characterized by a hoarse, barking cough and difficult breathing occurring chiefly in infants and children. In the early nineteenth century it was called cynanche trachealis. Synonyms: roup, hives, choak, stuffing, rising of the lights.

Dropsy (a contraction for hydropsy): Disease causing fluids in the serous cavities. Referred to a swelling, whether general or localized. The presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid. Congestive heart failure.

Dysentery: Infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels and diarrhea.

Enteritis: Inflammation of the intestines, or could also take the form of enteric fever (typhoid).

Mania: Insanity.

Palsy: Paralysis or loss of muscle control.

Pneumonia: Inflammation of the lungs. A major killer.

Quinsy, Quinzy: A "peritonsillar abscess," or an abscess behind the tonsil. Can be fatal.

Typhoid (typhoid fever): Often caused by unsanitary water conditions and contaminated food or milk. Flies could carry the disease and contaminate food supplies. It was more common in swampy areas where shallow wells could become contaminated.

Whooping Cough: A a highly contagious disease of the respiratory system, usually affecting children, that is characterized in its advanced stage by spasms of coughing interspersed with deep, noisy inspirations.

Surname	Age	Sex/Race/Marital Status	Death DX	Mth Died	Born In
William Adams	2	M/W	Scarlet Fever	May	SC
Robert Boozer	3mth	M/W	-	Mar	SC
Jesse Beam	70	M/W	Accident	Apr	SC
William C. Bedenbaugh	22	M/W	Congestive Chill	Apr	SC
Amelia Bishop	14	F/W/S	Scarlet Fever	Apr	SC
Sophia E. Brown	20	F/W/S	Typhoid	Jul	SC
Thomas H. Brown	18mth	M/W	Convulsion	Apr	SC
Mary Bundrick	27	F/B/M	Dropsy	Mar	SC
F. W. Boozer	54	M/W/M	-	Feb	SC
Robert Caldwell	84	M/W	Typhoid	Feb	SC
Irene Cannon	45	F/W	Typhoid	Feb	SC
Robert Carmichael	75	M/W	Diarrhea	Nov	SC
Dorothy Chandler	11	F/W	Croup	Nov	SC
Caroline MRS. Clarke	23	F/W/M	Brain Fever	Dec	SC
Katharine Clark	74	F/W/W	Dropsy	Feb	SC
Gordon Cohen	6	M/W	Scarlet Fever	Mar	New York
David Cromer	76	M/W/M	consumption	Dec	SC
Frances Cromer	7	F/W	Scarletina	Oct	SC
George Cromer	72	M/W/M	Dropsy	Jan	SC
Hilliard Cromer	38	M/W/M	Pneumonia	Apr	SC
John B. Cromer	5	M/W	Scarlet Fever	May	SC
Louisa Cromer	1mth	F/W	Bil. Fever	Feb	SC
Mary Culick (McCullough)	78	F/W	Hart dropey	Feb	SC
Henry F. Dominick	6	M/W	Consumption	Mar	SC
Asa Darby	52	M/W/M	Bronchitis	Mar	SC
David F. Davenport	48	M/W	Typhoid	May	SC
Catharine M. Davis	46	F/W	Dysentery	May	SC
Christianna Dickert	40	F/W	Palsy	Nov	SC
Peter B. Enlow	11mth	M/W	Pneumonia	Mar	SC
Infant of P. Felker		M	Stillborn	Oct	SC
Selina Foot	75	F/W	Dysentery	May	SC
Colonel John Glenn	83	M/W.W	Lungs	Dec	SC
William L. Glymph	1	M/W	Scarletina	Jul	SC
Jane K. Goree	22	F/W.M	Childbirth	Dec	SC
Thomas M. Hair	36	M/W/M	Maniapatce	Mar	SC
Albey S. Harrison	1	F/W	Cholera	Sep	SC
Mary Harmon	47	F/W/M	Pneumonia	Apr	SC
John Hart	40	M/W/S	Consumption	Nov	SC
David Heller	55	M/W/S	Pneumonia	Feb	SC
Emma B. Hentz	13mth	F/W	Scarlet Fever	Apr	SC
William D. Jason	6	M	Brain congestion	May	SC
Hosey Johnson	17	M/W	Pneumonia	Apr	SC
Newton Johnson	18mth	M/W	Convulsion	Aug	SC
Paul Johnston	39	M/W	Consumption	Aug	SC
Walter A. Kibler	3	M/W	Quinsey	Nov	SC
Elizabeth Knight	21	F/W/M	Gastritis	Jun	SC
James C. Knight	3mth	M/W	Diarrhea	Jun	SC
William R. Knight	13mth	M/W	Diarrhea	Sep	SC
Sallie A. Knox	1	F/W	Cholera	Sep	SC
William C. Lane	4	M/W	Typhoid	Sep	SC
James M. Lindsey	2	M/W	Croup	Sep	SC
James B. Litezey	6	M/W	Scarlet Fever	May	SC
Belton Long	17	M/W	Pneumonia	Mar	SC
Frances E. Long	3	F/W	Croup	May	SC
Eliza Martin	26	F/W	Typhoid	Aug	SC
Mary MRS. Martishaw	75	F/W/W	Hurt	Dec	SC
Frances E. McCants	28	F/W/M	Gastritis	Aug	SC
Ebenezer L. Moore	29	M/W/S	Congestive Chill	Oct	SC
Elenora Moore	4	F/W	Typhoid	May	SC
Nelly Moore	38	F/W	Pneumonia	Jan	SC
John T. Noland	26	M/W/S	Enteritis	Jul	SC
Alonzo (John Michael) Paysinger	1mth	M/W	-	Aug	SC
Mary Powell	3mth	F/W	Pneumonia	Aug	SC
Sarah J. Reese	1	F/W	Brain Infalmation	Jan	SC
B. A. Riser	66	F/W	consumption	Feb	SC
Sarah Rixard	86	F/W/W	Cancer	Jan	SC
Mrs. D.. Rutherford	50	F/W/M	Apoplexy	Jun	SC
Francis Setzler	2	M/W	Scatlet Fever	May	SC
Andrew J. Sligh	45	M/W/M	consumption	Jan	SC
E. A. Sligh	1	F/W	Cholera	Apr	SC
James Sloan	64	M/W/M	Consumption	Feb	SC
George Stockman	65	M/W	Pneumonia	Jan	SC
Eliza Suber	28	F/W/M	Childbirth	Dec	SC
Infant Suber		F	Spasms	Nov	SC
George F. Swetenberg (Swittenberg)	1	M/W	Dysentery	Oct	SC
Margaret Swindler	37	F/W/M	Typhoid	Apr	SC
Catharine Taylor	45	F/W	Palsy	May	SC
William Thomas	1	M/W	Dysentery	May	SC
Mary Vaughan	47	F/W/M	Cancer	July	SC
Eugene Wells	11mth	M	Congestion	Sep	SC
William Wicker	3	M/W	Scarlet Fever	Feb	SC
Pettis W. Wilson	7	M/W	Cramp	Aug	SC
Susan A. Wilson	44	F	Typhoid	Jul	SC
Lunette ?	5d	F/W		Feb