Panola County Deaths

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.

Name	Race/Sex/Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death	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

**(Govenor Morris, son of Anderson & Eliza Morris, per 1900 Census was born Feb. 1893)

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