Ablepsy -      Blindness 
Ague -      Malarial Fever 
American plague -    Yellow fever 
Anasarca --  Generalized massive edema 
Aphonia --   Laryngitis 
Aphtha ---   The infant disease "thrush" 
Apoplexy --  Paralysis due to stroke 
Asphycsia/Asphicsia --  Cyanotic and lack of oxyge 
Atrophy --  Wasting away or diminishing in size.
 

Bad Blood --  Syphilis 
Bilious fever -- Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile  emesi 
Biliousness --  Jaundice associated with liver disease 
Black plague or death --  Bubonic plague 
Black fever -- Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate. 
Black pox -- Black Small pox 
Black vomit --  Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever 
Blackwater fever -- Dark urine associated with high temperature 
Bladder in throat --  Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates) 
Blood poisoning --  Bacterial infection; septicemia 
Bloody flux -- Bloody stools 
Bloody sweat -- Sweating sicknes 
Bone shave --  Sciatica 
Brain fever --  Meningitis 
Breakbone -- Dengue feve
Bright's disease -- Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys 
Bronze John --  Yellow fever 
Bule -- Boil, tumor or swelling
 

Cachexy -- Malnutrition 
Cacogastric --Upset stomach 
Cacospysy --  Irregular puls 
Caduceus --  Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy 
Camp fever -- Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea 
Canine madness --  Rabies, hydrophobia 
Canker --  Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex 
Catalepsy --  Seizures / trances 
Catarrhal --  Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy 
Cerebritis --  Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning 
Chilblain -- Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold 
Child bed fever --  Infection following birth of a child 
Chin cough -- Whooping cough 
Chlorosis --Iron deficiency anemia 
Cholera  -- Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing
Cholera morbus -- Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis. 
Cholecystitus -- Inflammation of the gall bladder 
Cholelithiasis -  Gall stones
Chorea -- Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
Cold plague --  Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing 
Colic -- An abdominal pain and cramping
Congestive chills --  Malaria 
Congestion --  Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs 
Congestive chills --   Malaria with diarrhea 
Congestive fever --    Malaria 
Consumption=Tuberculosis or T.B.
Corruption --   Infection
Coryza --  A cold 
Costiveness -- Constipation 
Cramp colic --  Appendicitis 
Crop sickness --  Overextended stomach
Croup ---  Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat 
Cyanosis --  Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood 
Cynanche --   Diseases of throat 
Cystitis -- Inflammation of the bladder
 

Day fever --   Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness 
Debility -- Lack of movement or staying in bed 
Decrepitude -- Feebleness due to old age 
Delirium tremens -- Hallucinations due to alcoholism 
Dengue --  Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
Dentition --  Cutting of teeth 
Deplumation -- Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss
Diary fever -- A fever that lasts one day 
Diptheria -- Contagious disease of the throat 
Distemper --  Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexi
Dock fever -- Yellow fever
Dropsy -- Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
Dropsy of the Brain -- Encephalitis
Dry Bellyache ---   Lead poisoning
Dyscrasy --   An abnormal body condition
Dysentery -- Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood
Dysorexy -  Reduced appetite 
Dyspepsia -- Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms 
Dysury --  Difficulty in urination
 

Eclampsy -- Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labo 
Ecstasy -- A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason 
Edema --  Nephrosis; swelling of tissues
Edema of lungs --Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy 
Eel thing --   Erysipelas
Elephantiasis --   A form of leprosy
Encephalitis --  Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness
Enteric fever --  Typhoid fever
Enterocolitis --  Inflammation of the intestines
Enteritis --  Inflation of the bowels
Epitaxis --  Nose bleed
Erysipelas -- Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and  bulbous lesion
Extravasted blood --  Rupture of a blood vessel
 

Falling sickness -- Epileps
Fatty Liver -    Cirrhosis of liver
Fits --  Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
Flux -- An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea
Flux of humour -- Circulation
French pox -   Syphilis
 

Gathering --   A collection of pu
Glandular fever - Mononucleosis
Great pox --     Syphilis
Green fever / sickness --  Anemia
Grippe/grip --  Influenza like symptoms
Grocer's itch --Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
 

Heart sickness --  Condition caused by loss of salt from bod
Heat stroke -- Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment emperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed.
Hectical complaint -- Recurrent fever
Hematemesis -- Vomiting blood 
Hematuria --  Bloody urine
Hemiplegy --   Paralysis of one side of body
Hip gout --  Osteomylitis
Horrors --   Delirium tremens
Hydrocephalus--  Enlarged head, water on the brain
Hydropericardium -- Heart dropsy
Hydrophobia -- Rabies
Hydrothroax ---  Dropsy in chest
Hypertrophic -- Enlargement of organ, like the heart
 

Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Inanition --   Physical condition resulting from lack of food 
Infantile paralysis -- Polio
Intestinal colic --  Abdominal pain due to improper diet
 

Jail fever --   Typhus
Jaundice --  Condition caused by blockage of intestines
 

King's evil --berculosis of neck and lymph glands
Kruchhusten --  Whooping cough

Lagrippe --   Influenza 
Lockjaw --Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days 
Long sickness --Tuberculosis
Lues disease --   Syphilis
Lues venera - --  Venereal diseas
Lumbago --  Back pain
Lung fever --- Pneumonia
Lung sickness -- Tuberculosis
Lying in -- Time of delivery of infant
 

Malignant sore throat --     Diphtheria
Mania --  Insanity
Marasmus --   Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
Membranous Croup -- Diphtheria
Meningitis --   Inflation of brain or spinal cord 
Metritis -- Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
Miasma --  Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
Milk fever --  Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or  brucellosis
Milk leg --   Post partum thrombophlebitis
Milk sickness --  Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
Mormal --  Gangrene
Morphew --  Scurvy blisters on the body
Mortification --  Gangrene of necrotic tissue
Myelitis --    Inflammation of the spine
Myocarditis -- Inflammation of heart muscles
 

Necrosis --  Mortification of bones or tissue
Nephrosis --   Kidney degeneration 
Nepritis --   Inflammation of kidneys 
Nervous prostration --  Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and  mental activities 
Neuralgia --  Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in  head 
Nostalgia --   Homesickness

Palsy --  Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles. It was listed as "Cause of death". 
Paroxysm--  Convulsion 
Pemphigus-- Skin disease of watery blisters 
Pericarditis --  Inflammation of heart 
Peripneumonia --   Inflammation of lungs 
Peritonotis --   Inflammation of abdominal area 
Petechial Fever --   Fever characterized by skin spotting 
Puerperal exhaustion --    Death due to child birth 
Phthiriasis -- Lice infestation 
Phthisis --   Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis 
Plague --  An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate 
Pleurisy -  Any pain in the chest area with each breath 
Podagra --    Gout 
Poliomyelitis --   PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis 
Pott's disease --   Tuberculosis of spine 
Puerperal exhaustion --   Death due to childbirth 
Puerperal fever --  Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant 
Puking fever -      Milk sickness 
Putrid fever ----     Diphtheria.
 

Quinsy -    Tonsillitis.
 

Remitting fever --     Malaria 
Rheumatism --  Any disorder associated with pain in joints 
Rickets -   Disease of skeletal system 
Rose cold --    Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Rotanny fever --     (Child's disease) ???
Rubeola --     German measles 
 

Sanguineous crust -- Scab 
Scarlatina --  Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever--   A disease characterized by red rash 
Scarlet rash --    Roseola 
Sciatica --   Rheumatism in the hips 
Scirrhus --    Cancerous tumors 
Scotomy ---     Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight 
Scrivener's palsy --      Writer's cramp 
Screws ---    Rheumatism 
Scrofula --   Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with  abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease. 
Scrumpox --     Skin disease, impetigo 
Scurvy --  Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin 
Septicemia --    Blood poisoning 
Shakes --   Delirium tremens
Shaking ---  chills, ague 
Shingles --   Viral disease with skin blisters and nerve pain 
Ship fever ---  Typhus
Siriasis- -    Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure 
Sloes ----   Milk sickness 
Small pox --    Contagious disease with fever and blisters 
Softening of brain-    Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with an end result of the tissue softening in that area. 
Sore throat distemper-- Diphtheria or quinsy 
Spanish influenza ---    Epidemic influenza 
Spasms -  Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles,  like a convulsion 
Spina bifida---    Deformity of spine 
Spotted fever ---   Either typhus or meningitis 
Sprue ---  Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore  throat 
St. Anthony's --- Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas  are bright red in appearance 
St. Vitas dance ---Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements  performed involuntary. 
Stomatitis --     Inflammation of the mouth 
Stranger's fever --      Yellow fever
Strangery --     Rupture 
Sudor anglicus --    Sweating sickness 
Summer complaint ---Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk 
Sunstroke --   Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause 
Swamp sickness --     Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis 
Sweating sickness --- Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century 
 

Tetanus ---   Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and  dizziness 
Thrombosis --- Blood clot inside blood vessel 
Thrush --Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat 
Tick fever --    Rocky mountain spotted fever 
Toxemia of pregnancy -    Eclampsia 
Trench mouth ---  Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene 
Tussis convulsiva --     Whooping cough
Typhus --  Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness 

Variola --  Smallpox 
Venesection ---   Bleeding 
Viper's dance --   St. Vitus Dance
 

Water on brain --      Enlarged head 
White swelling --   Tuberculosis of the bone 
Winter fever --    Pneumonia 
Womb fever ---     Infection of the uterus. 
Worm fit-    Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea

Yellowjacket--  Yellow fever.  

 A Big Thanks goes out to the Weakley County Tennessee Gen Wed and Jeannie Travis for her work.  


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The Soundex code for a name consists of a letter followed by three numerical digits: the letter is the first letter of the name, and the digits encode the remaining consonants. Similar sounding consonants share the same digit so, for example, the labial consonants B, F, P, and V are each encoded as the number 1.

The correct value can be found as follows:

1. Retain the first letter of the name and drop all other occurrences of a, e, i, o, u, y, h, w.
2. Replace consonants with digits as follows (after the first letter):
   • b, f, p, v => 1
   • c, g, j, k, q, s, x, z => 2
   • d, t => 3
   • l => 4
   • m, n => 5
   • r => 6
3. Two adjacent letters (in the original name) with the same number are coded as a single number; also two letters with the same number separated by 'h' or 'w' are coded as a single number, whereas such letters separated by a vowel are coded twice. This rule also applies to the first letter.
4. Continue until you have one letter and three numbers. If you run out of letters, fill in 0s until there are three numbers.

Using this algorithm, both "Robert" and "Rupert" return the same string "R163" while "Rubin" yields "R150". "Ashcraft" and "Ashcroft" both yield "A261" and not "A226" (the chars 's' and 'c' in the name would receive a single number of 2 and not 22 since an 'h' lies inbetween them). "Tymczak" yields "T522" not "T520" (the chars 'z' and 'k' in the name are coded as 2 twice since a vowel lies inbetween them). "Pfister" yields "P236" not "P123" (the first two letters have the same number and are coded once as 'P').

If you are not a mathmetician and don't want to try and figure out the code for the last name of the person you are looking for then google soundex converter and keep it handy, when loking up a death index.

The index only provides the name Soundex Codex Date of Death and Death Certificate Number.

The files are in pdf format, so when I opened a file for aa specific year and the beginning letter of the last name such as A/B and so forth. I did try to use the search that the acrobat reader provides, but to no avail.

The best waay to keep frrom pulling your hair out is to use a soundex converter, type in the last name get the code and look that way. Then it becomes far easier.

Please email me directly with any questions to abovethebranches@abovethebranches.com
or comment on this blog.

Good Luck with all of your searches,
D. Barry Sheldon

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