1880 mortality schedule

This is pretty interesting. It's the 1880 mortality schedule — a list that counted the number of deaths that occurred in the year before the census was taken — for Solebury Township.

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I thought lines 13 and 14 were especially sad. Madson and Ruth Paxson, twins 20 days old, died from unknown causes.

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