Arcadia, Butler and Macedon
The typescripts of the several lists of deaths that took place in Wayne County in 1848 were donated to us by the Office of the County Historian to help you better formulate questions when visiting the society or ordering mail searches. We all hope these lists provide clues to ancestral location, surnames and perhaps a final death date. If you recognize anyone on this list, please drop a line to Tim so it can be noted next to their listing.
As you scan the listings you'll see unusual spellings. They're not typos we've made but can be attributed to the original typist's interpretation of old handwriting, or assumptions made by the registrars of the deaths. If a spelling differs from that of your ancestral surname, or deaths didn't take place in the townships you thought your ancestors were from, don't pass them by. Jot them down...just in case. A date and location can be used to search in the 1850 census or the info may turn out useful to others searching your surnames.
During years 1847 - 1850 some New York State counties officially recorded information about births, marriages and deaths. Then they just stopped. Not all counties preserved this early information so each county, and township within it, must be taken on a case-by-case basis in making inquiries of societies. Required birth registration didn't start in New York State until 1880, over 30 years after the 1847 - 1850 events were recorded, and wasn't really enforced until 1900. New York State death registration wasn't required until just after 1900. Marriage certificates were issued in the 1860s but kept by the couple and written down by the person performing the marriage.
*** Official death certificates were not given for New York State in 1848.***
*** Neither the team who are assisting in preparing the township death lists nor the coordinators have further info on the persons named below. ***
F. = Foreigner N. = Native M. = Married U. = Unmarried
MACEDON DEATHS 1848: prepared by Judy Breedlove of Dickinson, TX
| February 17 | Ephraim Turner | M.N. | Macedon | 54 | Farmer | Deran gement |
| March 7 | Timothy Tripp | M.N. | Macedon | 78 | Farming | Gravel in the bladder |
| March 19 | Alice Capron | U.N. | Macedon | 82 | Old age | |
| April 16 | Nelson Lord | U.N. | Macedon | 22 | Teacher | Consumption |
| May | Rebecca Arnold | M.N. | Macedon | 65 | Disease of the heart | |
| June 29 | Nathanl. Hathaway | U.N. | Macedon | 75 | Carpenter | Consumption |
| July 6 | Martha Shourds | M.N. | Venice, N.Y. | 66 | Consumption Martha Shourds is my 4th Gr Grandmother. Donna J. Ward | |
| August 17 | Ellen Lapham | U.N. | Macedon | 8 mos. | Summer Complaint | |
| September 9 | Daniel Conklin | U.N. | Macedon | 94 | Dysentery | |
| September 18 | Walter P. Bickford | U.N. | Macedon | 1 1/2 | Diarrhea | |
| September 25 | Elija Clark | U.N. | Macedon | 11 | Inflamation of the brain | |
| October 8 | Maria M. Baker | U.N. | Macedon | 10 | Dysentery | |
| October 10 | Lyman Ford | U.N. | Macedon | 9 | Dysentery | |
| October 10 | Hoyt Delancy | U.N. | Macedon | 2 | Consumption | |
| October 10 | Female-unnamed | Macedon | 1 | Disease not mentioned | ||
| October 17 | Archer J. McMahan | F. | Macedon | 1 | Diarrhea | |
| October 18 | Edwin Ford | U.N. | Macedon | 7 | Dysentery | |
| October 23 | Ebenezer Reed | U.N. | Macedon | 79 | Old age | |
| October 26 | Simon Wolven | U.N. | Macedon | 21 | Boating | Typhus fever |
| October 29 | Thomas Baker | M.N. | Macedon | 66 | Farming | Dysentery |
| November 25 | Robert Tedman | M.N. | Macedon | 70 | Farmer | Consumption |
| December 4 | Barnabus Allen | M.N. | Palmyra | 65 | Drover | Suicide by hanging |
| December 9 | Ruth Langdon | U.N. | Macedon | 52 | Teacher | Consumption |
ARCADIA DEATHS 1848: prepared by Judy Breedlove of Dickinson, TX
| DATE | NAME | CODE | RESIDENCE | AGE | OCCUPATION | CAUSE OF DEATH |
| January 1 | Margaret Mesick | M.N. | Arcadia | 25 | Scarlet Fever | |
| January 7 | John Elsworth | U.N. | Arcadia | 46 | Carpenter | Consumption |
| January 15 | Harriet Mesick | M.N. | Arcadia | 33 | Scarlet Fever | |
| January 17 | Caleb Robinson | U.N. | Arcadia | 57 | Shoemaker | Urinary affection ** See note from Caleb's gg-grandson at end of listings! |
| January 24 | Miss Cronk | U.N. | Arcadia | 19 | Consumption | |
| January 26 | Oliver Ackley | M.N. | Arcadia | 20 | Boatman | Scrofula |
| January 27 | Isaac Soverhill | M.N. | Arcadia | Farmer | Consumption | |
| January 28 | Mary B. Lathrop | U.N. | Arcadia | 41 | Consumption | |
| January 29 | Thomas C. Hutchinson | U.N. | Arcadia | 15 | Bronerretus | |
| January 30 | Clark Johnson | M.N. | Arcadia | 15 | Consumption | |
| February 7 | Lot Sears | M.N. | Arcadia | 82 | Farmer | Palsy ** See note from Lot's gggg-granddau. at end of listings! |
| February 9 | Cloe Green | U.N. | Arcadia | 74 | Old Age | |
| February 9 | Mary Ann Leslie | U.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Unknown | |
| February 15 | Mary Guyder | U.N. | Arcadia | 1 | Consumption | |
| February 15 | Charles H. Pulver | U.N. | Arcadia | 5 | Congestion of the bowels | |
| February 17 | Lydia Everts | U.N. | Arcadia | 44 | Inflammation of the bowels | |
| February 19 | Chancy Smith | M.N. | Arcadia | 19 | Tailor | Consumption |
| February 23 | Anna Calkins | M.N. | Phelps | 71 | Dropsy | |
| February 25 | Daniel T. Olmstead | U.N. | Arcadia | 28 | Farmer | Killed by falling tree |
| Martha W. Ayres | M.N. | Arcadia | 10 days | Unknown | ||
| March 6 | Jane Winegar | U.N. | Arcadia | 21 | Consumption | |
| March 7 | Elizabeth Cornew | M.N. | Arcadia | 7 | ||
| March 8 | James Vanauken | U.N. | Arcadia | 84 | Old Age | |
| March 13 | Harriet Brown | U.N. | Arcadia | 7 | Croup | |
| March 13 | Celistia Smith | U.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Dropsy on the brain | |
| March 14 | Oliver Merril | U.N. | Arcadia | 22 | Boatman | Small pox |
| March 20 | Alexander Lathorp | U.N. | Arcadia | 4 mos. | Consumption | |
| March 21 | Lavinnia N. Turner | M.N. | Arcadia | 34 | Inflammation of the bowels | |
| March 23 | Charlotte Parks | U.N. | Arcadia | 67 | Consumption | |
| March 25 | George Stephensen | M.N. | Arcadia | 5 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 29 | Harriet Lusk | U.N. | Arcadia | Palsy | ||
| March 30 | Hellen Jane McNeal | U.N. | Arcadia | 2/4 mo. | Scarlet Fever | |
| March 31 | Hellen Sarah Warring | M.N. | Arcadia | 8 mos. | Disease of the heart | |
| April 2 | Lowel Sprague | U.N. | Arcadia | 42 | Consum ption | |
| April 7 | Ellen Grant | U.N. | Arcadia | 10 mos. | Summer complaint | |
| April 9 | Niles | M.N. | Arcadia | 9 | ||
| April 10 | How | U.N. | Arcadia | 40 | Deranged | |
| April 11 | Sarah Laura McNeal | U.N. | Arcadia | 6 mos. | Scarlet Fever | |
| April 14 | Trumble Mighells | U.N. | Arcadia | 29 | Consumption | |
| April 16 | Margaret Failing | U.N. | Lyons | 23 | Deranged | |
| April 17 | John H. Bevins | M.N. | Arcadia | 1 | Croup | |
| April 18 | Charles H. Seeley | U.N. | Arcadia | 56 | Farmer | Spinal Effection |
| April 19 | Alonzo Lamoreaux | M.N. | Arcadia | 22 mos. | Inflammation of Brain | |
| April 20 | John Garlock | U.N. | Arcadia | 62 | Laborer | Consumption |
| April 20 | Ann Valentine | M.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Scarlet Fever | |
| April 25 | Nancy Whicley | U.N. | Arcadia | 87 | Old age | |
| May 6 | George R. Mesick | U.N. | Arcadia | 3 | Inflammation of the stomach | |
| May 12 | Seymour Cory | M.N. | Arcadia | 5 | Dropsy | |
| May 13 | Edmund Henry | U.N. | Arcadia | 43 | Lawyer | Intemperant exposure |
| May 16 | Netherlander | M.N. | Arcadia | 1 | ||
| May 19 | Thankful McNeal | M.N. | Arcadia | 76 | Old age | |
| May 23 | Benjamin Dennis | U.N. | Arcadia | 42 | Blacksmith | Inflammation of the Brain |
| May 26 | Eveline Devenny | U.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Fever | |
| May 29 | John Everts | M.N. | Arcadia | 79 | Farmer | Congestive fever |
| May 30 | Henry Vanderkarr | U.N. | Arcadia | 25 | Farmer | Remitting fever |
| May 31 | William R. Knapp | M.N. | Arcadia | 77 | Farmer | Remitting fever |
| June 10 | Lyman Nellis | M.N. | Arcadia | 10 | Drowned | |
| June 14 | Joseph Stowe | M.N. | Arcadia | 36 | Printer | Consumption |
| June 17 | Hellen Culver | M.N. | Arcadia | 30 | ||
| June 21 | Thankful Thornten | M.N. | Arcadia | 22 | Stopage in the bowels | |
| June 21 | Charles Potter | U.N. | Arcadia | 17 | Scarlet Fever | |
| July 14 | Vanauken | U.N. | Arcadia | 11 wks. | ||
| July 15 | Mary Bentley | U.N. | Arcadia | 7 | Epelleptic fits | |
| July 18 | Eve Ann Burley | M.N. | Arcadia | 22 | Consumption | |
| July 19 | Charity Vanfleet | U.N. | Arcadia | 73 | Dropsy in the head | |
| July 20 | Eliza J. Woolfrom | U.N. | Arcadia | 3 mos. | Dropsy in the head | |
| July 21 | Rachael Shorman | U.N. | Arcadia | 19 | Scarlet fever | |
| July 21 | John Levi Cary | U.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Inflammation fever | |
| July 28 | Noah Hughes | M.N. | Arcadia | 9 | Fever | |
| July 29 | Azuba Bryant | M.N. | Arcadia | 76 | Fever | |
| July 31 | Revd. Benj. Bailey | U.N. | Arcadia | 64 | Broncretius Consumption | |
| August 3 | Jesse Failing | Arcadia | 1 | Summer complaint | ||
| August 6 | Robert | M.N. | Arcadia | |||
| August 7 | Deborah Benson | U.N. | Arcadia | 83 | Old age | |
| August 7 | Pratt | U.N. | Arcadia | 1 | Summer complaint | |
| August 10 | Corey | U.N. | Arcadia | |||
| August 11 | Adell Lamb | U.N. | Arcadia | 10 | Brain fever | |
| August 12 | Kinney Bronk | M.N. | Arcadia | 6 | Dysentary | |
| August 15 | Elizabeth Cole | U.N. | Lyons | 60 | Consumption | |
| August 18 | Vanfleet | M.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Summer complaint | |
| August 20 | Mary Middleten | U.N. | Arcadia | 64 | Summer complaint | |
| August 20 | Rays | U.N. | Arcadia | 11 wks. | ||
| August 20 | Gertrude Soverhill | M.N. | Arcadia | 14 | Dysentery | |
| August 28 | Miss Willis | M.N. | Arcadia | 42 | Fever | |
| August 31 | Darling Crego | M.N. | Arcadia | 54 | Carpenter | DURLIN CREGO See note at bottom of page |
| Andrew Payne | M.N. | Orleans City | 31 | Consumption | ||
| August 31 | Mariah Pomeroy | U.N. | Arcadia | 31 | Dysentary | |
| September 4 | Phineas Richardson | U.N. | Arcadia | 4 | Consumption | |
| September 4 | Hyde | U.N. | Arcadia | |||
| September 4 | Child of Miss Willis | M.N. | Arcadia | 3 | Fever | |
| September 8 | Charles Blanchard | U.N. | Arcadia | 44 | Blacksmith | Consumpton |
| September 9 | Morris Decay | U.N. | Arcadia | 10 | Dysentary | |
| September 9 | Delina Ellen Fox | M.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Dysentary | |
| September 10 | Catharin Penningtin | U.N. | Arcadia | 42 | Childbirth | |
| September 12 | Hannah Like | U.N. | Arcadia | 2 | ||
| September 15 | Hellen Olmstead | U.N. | Arcadia | 14 | Dysentary | |
| September 18 | Fredus Dekay | U.N. | Arcadia | 6 | Dysentary | |
| September 18 | Mariah Fredenburgh | U.N. | Arcadia | 53 | Dysentary | |
| September 19 | Frank H. Burley | M.N. | Arcadia | 1 mo. | Spinal effection | |
| September 19 | George W. Taylor | U.N. | Arcadia | 18 | Dysentary | |
| September 20 | Addissen D. Parks | U.N. | Arcadia | 5 | Dysentary | |
| September 20 | Caleb J. Robinson | U.N. | Arcadia | 9 | Dysentary ** See note at end of listings! | |
| September 20 | Welling | U.N. | Arcadia | 2 | ||
| September 21 | Andrew Vanderkarr | M.N. | Arcadia | 5 | Scarlet fever | |
| September 22 | John McWithy | U.N. | Arcadia | 65 | Shinglemaker | Errissipelus |
| September 22 | Eli Stebbins | M.N. | Arcadia | 26 | Farmer | Chill fever |
| September 22 | William Wilcox | U.N. | Arcadia | 26 | Farmer | Suicide |
| September 22 | Catharine Vosburgh | U.N. | Arcadia | 16 | Effectier of the heart | |
| September 25 | Quackenbush | U.N. | Arcadia | 3 mos. | ||
| September 26 | Samuel Rulisen | U.N. | Arcadia | 9 days | Died in a fit | |
| September 28 | Eveline Clark | U.N. | Arcadia | 1 | Dysentary | |
| October 3 | Rachael A. Bloemer | M.N. | Arcadia | 2 | Diarrhea | |
| October 7 | Peter Turner | M.N. | Arcadia | 35 | Boatman | Accident on the canal |
| October 9 | Christina Haight | Arcadia | 50 | |||
| October 15 | Margaret Hart | M.N. | Arcadia | 71 | Dropsy | |
| October 19 | Devin Like | U.N. | Arcadia | 75 | Farmer | Dropsy of the heart |
| October 19 | Agnes Baldwin | Arcadia | 1 1/2 | |||
| October 22 | Albert Cline | M.N. | Arcadia | |||
| October 25 | Margaret Olmstead | M.N. | Arcadia | 65 | Consumption | |
| October 27 | Ann Wynant | M.N. | Arcadia | 27 | Consumption | |
| October 30 | Benjamin Bond | M.N. | Arcadia | 48 | Shoemaker | Consumption |
| November 2 | Peter Knapp | M.N. | Arcadia | 60 | Farmer | Disease of the brain |
| November 8 | Newton Clark | Arcadia | 61 | Farmer | Dropsy | |
| November 9 | Charlotte Vandusen | Arcadia | Croup | |||
| November 10 | Carll | U.N. | Arcadia | |||
| November 12 | Catharine Whitbeck | Arcadia | 7 | Diabetes | ||
| December 1 | Sarah E. Miller | M.N. | Arcadia | |||
| December 6 | Hannah Daggett | U.N. | Arcadia | 84 | Old age | |
| December 15 | Mary Lamereaux | M.N. | Arcadia | 4 | Inflammation of the brain | |
| December 16 | Joel Fenn | U.N. | Arcadia | 40 | Laborer | Inflammation of the liver |
BUTLER DEATHS 1848: prepared by Judy Breedlove of Dickinson, TX
| DATE | NAME | CODE | RESIDENCE | AGE | OCCUPATION | CAUSE OF DEATH |
| March 1 | Robert Phelps | U.N. | Butler | 1 | Cold on the lungs | |
| June 3 | Emma Bishop | U.N. | Butler | 1 | Consumption | |
| June 12 | Alanson Carty | U.N. | Butler | 7 | Inflamation of the brain | |
| July 22 | Philena Jane | U.N. | Butler | 7 | Irrisipilus | |
| August 11 | Jane Saxton | M.N. | Butler | 31 | Housewife | Consumption |
| September 19 | Charles E. Scott | U.N. | Butler | 1 | Diarea | |
| November 3 | Ellen Angus | U.N. | Butler | 10 | Stoppage of the bowel | |
| December 16 | Bateman Barnum | U.N. | Butler | 64 | None | Cancer |
4 April 2015: In this section for Arcadia, Butler and Macedon listed is my 4th great grandfather, Lot Sears who died in Arcadia on 7 Feb 1848. As the instruction say I am letting you know. My name is E. Ann Olson; I live in Olympia, WA and am researching this Sears line to prove ancestry linkage for qualification in various lineage associations. I am particularly interested in information regarding the daughter of Lot and Lurana Butler Sears, Alice Sears Woodward.
Thanks for all the work on this project!
Ann Olson
5 September 2007: If you have information about the burial location of Durlin Crego, or any other info about him, please contact researcher Ann Marie Middleton.
28 Aug 2002: The Caleb Robinson you have listed, Jan 17, 1848, was my grgr-grandfather. The Caleb J. Robinson age 9 was the grandson of Caleb. They are listed as being buried in the old Glerum Farm Cemetery. Your web pages have been a great help in tracing my maternal ancestors.
Carl L. Shelley