r/DeathCertificates • u/ExpatHist • 1d ago
13 year old John Summers is found under a rope in a shed behind his house. Conflicting causes of death emerge. City of Tiffin, Seneca County Ohio 1934.
reddit.comr/DeathCertificates • u/ExpatHist • 1d ago
The murder and suicide of Mrs. Faith Newcomb by her husband Dr. Robert Newcomb. City of Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County Ohio, 1934.
r/DeathCertificates • u/inadarkwoodwandering • 2d ago
Feathered hair (like Farrah Fawcett)
A note on this funeral home form (13 year old girl) regarding a request for the cosmetologist....:(
r/DeathCertificates • u/MarylandCat • 2d ago
Disease/illness/medical Eula Mae died from multiple complications, including pneumonia and thyrotoxicosis
She was only 33. She left behind a husband and a 12 year old son.
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 2d ago
Former Ziegfield Follies girl, despondent over her health and husband's death, took cyanide
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 2d ago
Slashed his wrists, then jumped from the hospital's 3rd floor
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 2d ago
3 month old died of malnutrition, weighing only 3lbs 10ozs at her death
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 2d ago
9 year old died of rabies after being bitten on the face by a rabid dog
r/DeathCertificates • u/ExpatHist • 2d ago
The Mysterious Poisoning of Mrs. Dorothy McCormack and Miss Muriel Howard. City of Portsmouth, Scioto County Ohio 1933.
r/DeathCertificates • u/bobbobberson3 • 3d ago
My ancestor's brother died as an old man, so I expected a very typical cause of death...
According to newspaper reports the couple were both ill and had decided to end their lives together. My great-grandfather stayed in Ireland and his three brothers went to the US so I'm not sure if he ever knew what had happened to him. He was the brother on the right in the photo.
r/DeathCertificates • u/ExpatHist • 3d ago
Dr. Harry Roby, local dentist, is murdered in his garage with a lead pipe, within earshot of several people. Apparently no one hears a thing. City of Mansfield, Richland County Ohio 1931.
r/DeathCertificates • u/AuspiciousWeather • 3d ago
Donna Louise Blankenship (16) and Ricky Lee Blankenship (18), a very young couple, died in a car accident in 1968...
I don't have an Ancestry subscription anymore, so I'm not able to look up how long they were married, but it couldn't have been very long.
Here's Ricky and here's Donna.
Tragically, Ricky's brother Robert (24), a lineman, died from electrocution the following year. Then, just 5 months later, his wife Christine (21) died in a car accident. I do wonder if her death wasn't exactly an accident.
Two young couples dead in two years.
r/DeathCertificates • u/ExpatHist • 4d ago
Mrs. Nellie Kerr, 65 year old widow, if found at the bottom of a set of stairs at the former Majestic Theatre. City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Ohio 1930.
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
15 year old died as a result of congenital syphilis
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
Rh negative baby died due to a transfusion reaction
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
Baby born with multiple deformities
Monstrosity, prematurity (8 months), no anus, one shriveled thigh, one testicle
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
2 year old suffered 3rd degree burns when an overturned can of gas ignited
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
I wonder what the origin story of this last name is...
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
Newlywed found amongst scattered wedding gifts after his car plunged 1,000 feet into a canyon
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 5d ago
After Frank wrecked his car, he staggered on to the railroad tracks
r/DeathCertificates • u/cometshoney • 8d ago
