1897 Reported Deaths
Clay Co., Kansas
Death records for 1897 including a few from 1896 and 1898.
| Name of Deceased | Age | Date of Death | Marital Status | Place of Death | Cause of Death | |||||||||
| Austin, Ralph E. | 10 | 12-10-1896 | Single | Vining | Diphtheria | |||||||||
| Haynes, Mary A. | 61 | 12-30-1896 | Married | Vining | Gastritis/peritonitis | |||||||||
| Swenson, Olga | 6 | 1-28-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Curtis, Female | 65 | 2-5-1897 | Widow | Clay Center | Heart failure | |||||||||
| Blein, Henry G. | 2y2m | 1-22-1897 | Single | Sherman Twp. | Not given | |||||||||
| Douns, Catherine | 5m | 1-22-1897 | Single | Green | Bronchitis/Meningitis | |||||||||
| Whit, Philip | 1-31-1897 | Married | May Day | Dropsy | ||||||||||
| Hacker, J. A. | 84 | 12-12-1896 | Married | Old age | ||||||||||
| Girrard, Mary | 28 | 2-12-1897 | Married | Mulberry Twp. | Septicemia | |||||||||
| Hoffman, Fred | 59 | 3-2-1897 | Single | Highland Twp. | Tuberculosis | |||||||||
| Yarrow, Eunice | 65 | 3-9-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Pluerisy/Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Johanson, Selma | 21 | 2/6/1897 | Single | Garfield Twp. | Pulmonary pneumonia | |||||||||
| Blane, George W. | 77 | 2/25/1897 | Widower | Clay Center Twp. | Influenza/old age | |||||||||
| Ridgeway, G. | 6 | 2-13-1897 | Single | May Day | Membraneous croup | |||||||||
| Sweet, Mari | 64 | 2-23-1897 | Married | Sherman Twp. | Angina pectoris | |||||||||
| Graves, Mary | 86 | 2-7-1897 | Widow | Broughton | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Martin, Lewis | 86 | 3-12-1897 | Widower | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Harris, James R. | 1y3m | 1-2-1897 | Single | Morganville | Lung fever | |||||||||
| Wilson, James R. | 67y10m | 2-8-1897 | Married | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Lockhart, Samuel | 42 | 1-9-1897 | Married | Exeter Twp. | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Alstrum, Bedy | 7y3m | 1-10-1897 | Single | Garfield Twp. | Drowning | |||||||||
| Smith, Alex | 14 | 1-11-1897 | Single | Exeter Twp. | Appendicitis | |||||||||
| Cook, Emma M. | '5d | 2-8-1897 | Single | Morganville | Lung fever | |||||||||
| Taylor, Mary* | 53 | 2-15-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Sherbert, Howard | 6y2m15d | 2-16-1897 | Single | Grant Twp. | Appendicitis | |||||||||
| Maynes, C. W. | 2m27d | 2-24-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| O'Harro, Peter | 97 | 2-27-1897 | Widower | Bloom Twp. | General decline | |||||||||
| Huntress, ---------- | 42 | 3-7-1897 | Married | Minneapolis, MN | Cancer | |||||||||
| Moon, Mrs. M. J. | 67 | 3-19-1897 | Paralysis | |||||||||||
| Stratton, --. L. | 57 | 3-21-1897 | Married | Blaine Twp. | Bronchial asthma | |||||||||
| Shaw, Edith | 2y2m | 4-7-1897 | Single | Grant Twp. | ||||||||||
| Smith. Louisa | 57 | 4-8-1897 | Married | Broughton | ||||||||||
| Thornton, James M. | 43 | 3-30-1897 | Married | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Flenniken, J. C. | 77 | 4-3-1897 | Married | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Belknap, Alice | 4-10-1897 | Married | Idana | |||||||||||
| Kirchner, Louisa | 72 | 4-11-1897 | Married | Bloom Twp. | Dropsy | |||||||||
| Olson, female | 6d | 4-19-1897 | Single | Hayes Twp. | ||||||||||
| Everett, Oliver R. | 6y6m | 4-23-1897 | Single | Agenda KS | Catarrhal fever | |||||||||
| Swanberg, Olive | 4 | 4-25-1897 | Single | Hayes Twp. | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Logan Isaac | 67 | 5-2-1897 | Married | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Flemmiken, Caroline | 71 | 5-3-1897 | Widow | Clay Center | Heart failure | |||||||||
| Nicols, Daniel | 60 | 5-7-1897 | Married | Idana | Softening of the brain | |||||||||
| Long, Amy | 9m7d | 5-10-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Gastritis | |||||||||
| Samuelson, Sarah G. | 56 | 5-11-1897 | Married | Morganville | Cancer of the stomach | |||||||||
| Wylie, Cora | 28 | 5-13-1897 | Married | Bloom Twp. | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Williams, Carrie | 34 | 5-20-1897 | Married | Leonardville | Septic pneumonia | |||||||||
| Hall, Lucy A. | '44y9m | 5-25-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Abumeuna | |||||||||
| Lower, Lillian M. | 25 | 5-27-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Regester, female | 1y6m | 5-29-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Summer complaint | |||||||||
| Sjoblom, Andrew | 30 | 6-8-1897 | Married | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Senn, Lydia | 21 | 6-6-1897 | Single | Lasita KS | ||||||||||
| Webber, Earl | 9m | 6-19-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Whooping cough | |||||||||
| Dittmar, Albert | 1m14d | 6-25-1897 | Single | Idana | Whooping cough | |||||||||
| Babman. Minerva | 75 | 6-20-1897 | Married | Clifton | Insulation | |||||||||
| Baker, Preston | 1 | 4-11-1897 | Single | Sheridan Twp.(?) | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| McCaddon, Earl | 6m | 5-6-1897 | Single | Mulberry Twp. | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Schlecht, Catharine | 56 | 6-10-1897 | Married | Industry | Enteritis | |||||||||
| Matison, E. U. | 10m | 7-2-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Summer complaint | |||||||||
| Stratton, infant male | 7-2-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Stillborn | ||||||||||
| Roberts, Paul | 82 | 7-4-1897 | Widower | Green | Heart failure/old age | |||||||||
| McCully, Marjorie | 1 | 7-6-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Cholera infantum | |||||||||
| Price, Minnie | 2m | 7-5-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Bower, D. F. | 46 | 7-9-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Carlson, Walfred | 2 | 7-17-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Strangulation | |||||||||
| Mayos, Harry | 13y3m | 7-19-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Malarial fever | |||||||||
| Gamber, Frank | 45 | 7-17-1897 | Single | Oak Hill | Hemorrhage of brain | |||||||||
| Cutting, infant male | 6d | 7-19-1897 | Single | Green | Unknown | |||||||||
| Ehrsam, Marie | 61 | 7-25-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Typhoid malarial fever | |||||||||
| Young, Joseph | 78 | 7-21-1897 | Widower | Clifton | Consumption | |||||||||
| Sutton, William | 77 | 7-22-1897 | Widower | Oak Hill | Oak Hill | |||||||||
| Palmateer, Lottie | 28 | 7-24-1897 | Married | Green | Consumption | |||||||||
| Haymond, Charley | 28 | 7-26-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Acute nephritis | |||||||||
| Peterson, Ellen | 15 | 7-27-1897 | Single | Clay County | Peritonitis | |||||||||
| Carr, Julius* | 15 | 7-27-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Olander, infant | 3d | 7-30-1897 | Single | Clay County | ||||||||||
| Need, Jacob | 79 | 7-31-1897 | Widower | State asylum | Unknown | |||||||||
| Lake, Addie | 20 | 8-24-1897 | Single | Oak Hill | Consumption | |||||||||
| Milligan, Esther | 2y6m | 8-5-1897 | Single | Blaine Twp. | Cholera infantum | |||||||||
| Thompson, F. S. | 46 | 8-14-1897 | Married | Morganville | Fever | |||||||||
| Stewart, Hugh | 9m | 8-12-1897 | Single | Oak Hill | Cholera infantum | |||||||||
| Buttler, Anna | 25 | 8-27-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Apoplexy | |||||||||
| Williams, infant of S. | 5m | 8-15-1897 | Single | Grant Twp. | ||||||||||
| Price, Martha | 30y10m | 8-16-1897 | Married | Clay Center Twp. | Consumption | |||||||||
| Troxel, Abraham | 43 | 8-29-1897 | Married | Exeter Twp. | Malarial kidney disease | |||||||||
| Kay, John | 65y6m | 9-7-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Heart failure | |||||||||
| Nelson, Oscar | 2 | 9-2-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Congestion of brain | |||||||||
| Newell, Mrs. E. W. | 9-4-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Cancer | ||||||||||
| Armstrong, Ellsworth | 4m | 9-6-1897 | Single | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Hoover, David | 77y7m | 9-7-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Gravel (?) | |||||||||
| Hills, Henry | 56 | 9-10-1897 | Married | Exeter Twp. | Rhumatism | |||||||||
| Kulp, Jennie | 26 | 9-21-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Typhoid fever | |||||||||
| Whemhoff, infant | Single | Clay Center | Stillborn | |||||||||||
| Achenbach, Royal C. | 18y7m | 9-23-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Accidental shooting | |||||||||
| Mooney, George E. | 42 | 9-25-1897 | Married | Garfield Twp. | Typhoid malaria | |||||||||
| Pattison, M. (male) | 51 | 7-6-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Bright's disease | |||||||||
| Menan, infant male | 14m | 7-24-1897 | Single | Clifton | Summer complaint | |||||||||
| Sagen, infant male | 1 | 7-28-1897 | Single | Vining | Summer complaint | |||||||||
| Brooks, Otis | 35 | Married | Mulberry Twp. | Nervous prostration | ||||||||||
| Lewis, Rebecca | 47 | 4-29-1897 | Married | Gill Twp. | Congestion of liver | |||||||||
| Steppe, infant male | 4d | 6-30-1897 | Single | Republican Twp. | Convulsions | |||||||||
| Show, Jacob | 73 | 7-3-1897 | Married | Republican Twp. | Bright's disease | |||||||||
| Carlson, Frank | 4-11-1897 | Married | Clay Center Twp. | Pneumonia | ||||||||||
| Locke, L. M. (female) | 39 | 3-29-1897 | Married | Blaine Twp. | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Pitts, Zephania | 84 | 7-22-1897 | Married | Clifton | Rhumatism, cardiac dropsy | |||||||||
| and Bright's disease | ||||||||||||||
| Chapman, infant of A.G. | 10-7-1897 | Single | Idana | Stillborn | ||||||||||
| Salter, Edwina A. | 45y6m | 10-8-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Hoffman, David | 65 | 10-15-1897 | Married | Green | Heart failure | |||||||||
| Ruhle, Carl | 10-15-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Suicide by shooting | ||||||||||
| Linquist, Annie E. | 34 | 10-17-1897 | Married | Garfield Twp. | Cancer | |||||||||
| Burns, James | 79 | 10-18-1897 | Married | Clay Center | General disability | |||||||||
| Winkler, Herman | 27 | 10-18=1897 | Single | Clay Center | Suicide by hanging | |||||||||
| Starr, Mrs. N. A. | 72 | 10-19-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Bronchitis | |||||||||
| Greene, Francis | 73 | 10-26-1897 | Widowed | Clay Center | Jaundice | |||||||||
| Mitchell, Sarah E. | 51 | 10-28-1897 | Married | Hayes Twp. | Dysentery | |||||||||
| Von Tungeln, Ernst | 6 | 2-23-1897 | Single | Morganville | Influenza/inflammation of | |||||||||
| bowels | ||||||||||||||
| Messmore, Flora Dot | 16y10m | 7-9-1897 | Single | Clifton | Typhoid fever | |||||||||
| Feldtman, Carl | 3 | 9-29-1897 | Single | Morganville | Accidental scalding | |||||||||
| Brill, John | 18 | 11-7-1897 | Single | Bloom Twp. | Appendicitis | |||||||||
| Nelson, Johanna | 52 | 11-12-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Consumption | |||||||||
| Lair, Alice | 35 | 11-16-1897 | Married | Clay Center | General disabilty | |||||||||
| Stilson, E. M. | 23 | 11-19-1897 | 4m SE Ames, KS | Consumption | ||||||||||
| Butler, A. C. | 76 | 11-27-1897 | Married | Exeter Twp. | ||||||||||
| Clark, Margaret | 83 | 11-22-1897 | Married | Fancy Creek | Pneumonia | |||||||||
| Walton, Eliza J. | 51 | 11-24-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Diabetes | |||||||||
| Edmunds, E. (female) | 87 | 11-25-1897 | near Clifton | Old age | ||||||||||
| McAlister, Albert | 25 | 11-25-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Chronic malaria | |||||||||
| Brees, Zenia | 16 | 11-28-1895 | Single | Alert KS | ||||||||||
| Isner, James | 35 | 11-29-1897 | Single | County poor farm | Epilepsy | |||||||||
| Dunham, C. P. | 79 | 11-4-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Inflammation of bowels | |||||||||
| Ryerson, Amos R. | 80 | 12-2-1897 | Married | Clay Center | General disabilty | |||||||||
| Deal, H. H. | 26 | 12-8-1897 | Single | Clay Center | Suicide by shooting | |||||||||
| Brooks, George* | 66 | 12-14-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Cramp colic | |||||||||
| Kline, Mary J. | 67 | 12-17-1897 | Widow | Athelstane Twp. | Heart trouble | |||||||||
| Thompson, Clark | 27 | 12-23-1897 | Married | Clay Center | Hemorrhage of lungs | |||||||||
| Larson, Jonas | 64 | 12-24-1897 | Garfield Twp. | Consumption | ||||||||||
| Gifford, C. M. | 81 | 12-28-1897 | Milford | |||||||||||
| Boughton, infant | 1m15d | 1-3-1898 | Single | Clay Center | ||||||||||
| Chestnut, John | 42 | 1-6-1898 | Married | Exeter Twp. | Accident | |||||||||
| *race given as "Black" | ||||||||||||||