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Panola County Death Index, Volume 1

Abstracted by Marylee W. Knight, 2003

Although official death records began much earlier in other areas, Panola County did not begin recording deaths until 1903. The first recorded death occurred on April 26, 1903 when Hensley Johnson was "hung to a tree by a mob".

These records are sporadic at best because they contain only those deaths in which a physician was in attendance. People who died at home and were buried by their friends and relatives do not appear here.

The doctors, particularly the rural ones, did not rush to the Courthouse to file the Death Certificate immediately upon the death of one of their patients. They filed them whenever it fell handy to do so. Therefore, from one line to the next in the ledger, the dates of death are in no particular order.

This is just the first few pages of Volume 1 of the Death Records. As time permits, I will add more pages of information.

  • Name
  • Race/Sex/Age
  • Death Date Place
  • Cause
  • Physician
  • Record #
  • Anonymous, Little
  • B/M/1
  • 07/30/1903
  • Acute Milk Infection
  • Dr. C.C. Comer Carthage
  • Page 3, #9
  • Anonymous, Little
  • W/M/1 day
  • 07/07/1903
  • Premature Birth
  • Dr. J. L. Roquemore Clayton
  • Page 3, #10
  • Brown, Anna*
  • W/F/31
  • 05/28/1903 Murvaul
  • Not Stated
  • Dr. Fred Cariker Clayton
  • Page 2, #2
  • Brown, Jennie
  • B/F/6
  • 05/03/1903 Robinson Mill Panola County
  • Congestion
  • Page 1, #9
  • Burton, Robert
  • B/M/18
  • 05/03/1903 Arleston
  • Shot by pistol
  • Page 2, #11
  • Caswell, Giles
  • W/M/69
  • 05/27/1903 Woods
  • Asthma
  • Dr. W.E. DeBerry Woods
  • Page 2, #12
  • Chadwick, Sam
  • W/M/24
  • 07/09/1903 near Carthage
  • ____ of Brain
  • Dr. A. T. Perkins Carthage
  • Page 2, #3
  • Cherry, Willie
  • W/F/11
  • 07/23/1903 Carthage
  • Bilious Fever
  • Dr. C. F. Hull Carthage
  • Page 3, #12
  • Cochran, Albert
  • W/M/15
  • 07/17/1903 Carthage
  • Typhoid Fever
  • Dr. A. T. Perkins Carthage
  • Page 3, #8
  • Dupriest, john
  • W/M/72
  • 05/02/1903 Mahon
  • Dropsy
  • Page 1, #6
  • Fall, William Thomas
  • W/M/21
  • 07/31/1903 Carthage
  • Tuberculosis
  • Dr. S.A. Woodard Carthage
  • Page 3, #16
  • Gillaspie, Matilda
  • W/F/73
  • 04/26/1903 Carthage
  • Acute Gastritis
  • Page 1, #5
  • Heard, Perlee
  • W/F/8
  • 07/22/1903 Mahon
  • Congestion
  • Dr. J. C. Langston Mahon
  • Page 2, #6
  • Henagan, Sanford
  • W/M/1
  • 07/29/1903 Fair Play
  • Congestion of Bowels
  • Dr. R. J. Biles Fair Play
  • Page 3, #13
  • Johnson, Hensley
  • B/M/18
  • 04/26/1903 Carthage
  • Hung to a tree by a mob
  • Page 1, #1
  • Johnson, Mattie
  • B/F/?
  • 07/29/1903 Hickey
  • Not Stated
  • Page 2, #7
  • Leach, Cecelia Jane
  • W/F/54
  • 07/15/1903 Arleston
  • Bilious Remittant Fever
  • Dr. Richard Harris
    Arleston
  • Page 3, #15
  • McCarty, Baby
  • W/F/1
  • 04/18/1903 Ragley
  • Meningitis
  • Page 1, #3
  • McGee, Mack
  • B/M/34
  • 07/18/1903 Gary
  • Typhoid Fever
  • Dr. S. Ferguson Cozart, TX
  • Page 2, #5
  • Moerace, G.**
  • B/M/11
  • 05/12/1903 Woods
  • Pneumonia
  • Dr. W.E. DeBerry Woods
  • Page 2, #11
  • Reed, Lucille
  • W/F/1
  • 07/08/1903 Clayton
  • Bronchitis
  • Dr. J. L. Roquemore Clayton
  • Page 3, #11
  • Searcy, Grady
  • W/M/3
  • 04/17/1903 Ragley
  • Diphtheria
  • Page 1, #2
  • Smith, Author
  • W/M/19
  • 07/10/1903 Carthage
  • Typhoid Fever
  • Dr. A.T. Perkins Carthage
  • Page 2, #4
  • Turner, James
  • B/M/60
  • 04/24/1903 Boren
  • Septicemia
  • Page 1, #4
  • Wallace, Elias
  • B/M/68***
  • 08/12/1903 Longbranch
  • Traumatic Pleuritis
  • Dr. T. B. Wheeler Longbranch
  • Page 3, #17
  • Wiggins, Squire
  • B/M/2
  • 05/20/1903 Carthage
  • Consumption
  • Dr. J. E. Wall Carthage
  • Page 2, #1
  • Williams, Leanne
  • B/F/38
  • 04/20/1903 Furrh
  • Peritonitis
  • Page 1, #8
  • Williams, M. G.
  • W/M/72
  • 05/03/1903 Sugar Hill
  • Bright's Disease of the Kidneys
  • Page 1, #7
  • Williams, Maggie
  • W/F/59
  • 07/28/1903 Mahon
  • Poisonous Insect Wound
  • Dr. J. C. Langston Mahon
  • Page 3, #14

* Wife of Dallis Z. Brown.
** Govenor Morris, son of Anderson & Eliza Morris, per 1900 Census was born Feb. 1893.
*** States he was born in Africa.