Missouri certificate of death, Matilda Davis, Kirksville, 9 Jan 1918
Record
- Date
- 9 Jan 1918; filed 10 Jan 1918
- Held by
- Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics (Missouri State Archives); the image posted on Ancestry ("Matilda Davis Death Record", shared by maureenandglen, 3 Oct 2018)
- Reference
- Registration District No. 4; Primary Registration District No. 5001; Registered No. 7; File No. 11 [?]
- Seen as
- originalimagetranscriptabstractindex
What it says
Seen 11 Oct 2026 as a screenshot of the image in the Ancestry viewer.
- Place of death: Adair County; Kirksville, no. 1315 S. Wabash St., 3rd Ward.
- Full name: Matilda Davis. Female, white, married.
- Date of birth: May 10, 1831. Age: 86 years, 7 months, 29 days. Occupation: housewife. Birthplace: Indiana.
- Father: Jesse Collins, born Indiana. Maiden name of mother: Mary Reed, born Indiana.
- Informant: E. E. Galbreath [?], Kirksville, Mo. Filed 1/10 1918, A. W. Parrish [?], registrar.
- Medical certificate: died January 9, 1918, at 3 p.m.; attended from June 26, 1917, to Jan. 8, 1918; “last saw her alive on Oct. 13 [?], 1917.” Cause: chronic dysentery, duration “don’t know”; contributory, senility. Signed W. W. Martin, M.D., Jan. 9, 1918, Kirksville.
- Burial: Llewellyn Cemetery [?], Jan. 10, 1918. Undertaker: Swiger & Riordan [?], Kirksville.
It names her parents as Jesse Collins and Mary Reed, the first record found that does. The informant gives both parents’ birthplace as Indiana; Jesse was born in Virginia, and the family was in Morgan County, Indiana, by 1830. Her own birth year here is 1831; the 1850 census (aged 20) and the family tree have 1830.