The following deaths are taken from the 4 Jan. 1881 issue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.  These are NOT a continuation of my on-going posts on 'The Noted Dead,' but are new information.

Again, please note that I do NOT have any further information on these names, unless the person is a family member of mine.

 

Yesterday's Mortality

 

The following deaths were reported to the Board of Health yesterday (3 Jan. 1881.)

 

Rose McGintey, aged 73 years, at 1124 North Fourteenth street, of old age.

 

Nicholas Pahl, aged 50 years, at 803 South Second street, of cholera morbus.

 

George Jenkins, aged 42 years, at 3238 North Tenth street, accidently shot.

 

Bartley Riley, aged 30 years, at Sisters' Hospital, of meningitis.

 

Robert Pratt,  aged 38 years, at 1254 Collins, of bowel disease.

 

Lizzie Finnegan, aged 60 years, at 2305 Division street, of apoplexy.

 

Louisa Beggs, aged 21 months, at 2727 Eliott av., of pneumonia.

 

Bernhard H. Rahmeir, aged 66 years, at 2609 North Fourteenth street, of paralysis.

 

Henry Lindner, aged 32 years, at 1607 Cass av., paralysis.

 

Wm. Hippe, aged 35 years, at 3313 North Thirteenth street, of fever.

 

Hanora Geraghty, aged 82 years, at 921 North Twenty-first street, of old age.

 

Thomas Michaels, aged 58 years, at 1016 North Tenth street, of consumption.

 

E.H. Docter, aged 59 years, at Ninth and Exchange, congestion of the brain.

 

 

Here's hoping someone might find that elusive ancestor!

 

Madehlinne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continuing a partial listing of deaths in St. Louis in 1880....

 

April

April 2. Rev. Louis Padberg, aged 23, at 3901 Jefferson avenue, of pneumonia.

April 6. George R. Taylor, one of the wealthiest and best-known citizens of St. Louis, at his residence, No. 1804 Lucas place, of cerebral congestion, in his 61st year.

April 17. Robert L. Jones, aged 64 years, of pneumonia.  Mr. Jones was an old citizen and a member of the first House of Degelates.

April 22. Edward Nugent and H. J. Redemeier, dislocation of cerebral vertebrae.

April 22. Barlett Barber, a colored man, born in Virginia, living on Belgrade avenue, of gangrene of the leg, at the advanced age of 102 years.

April 27. Christian Gebhard, aged 85, at 2616 Carondelet avenue.

 

May

May 2. Eberhard Anheuser, founder and principal proprietor of Anheuser's Brewery; death caused by effects of a surgical operation at Eighth and Pestalozzi; deceased was 75 years of age.

May 9. James G. Barry, aged 80, at 1340 Chouteau avenue.

May 18. Emma Chase, a noted courtesan, at St. John's Hospital.

May 18. John D. S. Ferrier, the first colored lawyer of St. Louis, aged 26.

May 22. Sister Mary O'Callaghan, of the Convent of Scred Heart, aged 36.

May 27. Caleb Bury, of pneumonia, aged 42.

 

To be continued....

 

Madehlinne

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continuing a partial list of deaths in St. Louis in 1880....

 

February

 

February 18.  Wm. Hay, aged 77, after several years of chronic rheumatism, at Cook and Prairie avenue.

February 19.  John Rumsey, aged 66, at 2928 Olive.

February 22.  Mrs. Lee A. Robinson, aged 89.

February 27.  Peter Haas, aged 68, at 908 Park avenue.

February 28.  Magdalena Fath, aged 87, at 3531 Chestnut.

 

March

 

March 10.  John Forsythe, aged 70, at 2614 Thomas street.

March 14.  John B. Ganter, aged 70, at 2742 Geyer avenue.

March 18.  Dr. Thomas Scott, aged 60, at 2029 Eugenia, of inanition.

March 20.  Joseph K. Bent, age 63, at 3131 Chestnut street, heart disease.

March 23.  Marcus Stewart, age 93, at 423 North Seventh street.

 

To be continued...

 

Madehlinne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a photo from St. Louis Then and Now, of the Old Rock House at Chestnut and Main (First) Streets.

 

The picture, which was taken in 1940 during the sweeping waterfront clearing, shows the stone building which dated from before 1816.

 

Spanish fur trader Manuel Lisa built the house as a warehouse for his badger, buffalo, and beaver pelts.  St. Louis was, of course, an early fur-trading settlement to which those "Mountain Men" of yore brought their furs to sell.  [For those of you who are unfamiliar with fur trading days, think  "Jeremiah Johnson," the film with Robert Redford, and you have an idea of what that time period was like.]

 

This simple structure served as a warehouse until the 1880's, when the style-clashing mansard roof was added, perhaps to cover an additional story or attic.  After that, the building became a saloon, where notable African-American musicians like W. C. Handy, frequently played. 

 

The nature of the business is advertised and is legible along the side of the building.  If you look carefully through the struts of the railroad bridge which blocks part of the view, you can read advertisements for "Music Enterprises"  and "Liquor" painted on the inside of the upper story windows.  Faintly readable also is the painted sign for "Hyde Park Beer," spanning a side door to the saloon.

 

If you look closely, you can also see the old cobblestone street running along the side of the building.  Teamsters--men driving horse-drawn wagons for delivery or hauling--guided their wagons passed the saloon on their way to warehouses further up the street.  The wagons would have rumbled by loudly, with the horses'  hooves clip-clopping on the rough surface of the cobbles.

 

The Old Rock House was slated for demolition when this picture was taken in the 40's.

 

Madehlinne

 

 

The following list of deaths was first published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on Friday, 31 December 1880. Sometimes the cause of death is listed and, remember, there was no privacy in 1880 and the newspaper listed the unvarnished truth.

BUT this is by NO means a complete list. However, I have no OTHER information on the people whose names are on the list, so please don't ask for more. This is all I have--unless it is someone who is in my family.

Enjoy!

 

Madehlinne

 

"From the grim burial permit record of the Clerk of the Board of Health is gleaned by careful perusal the names of the more noted of over 7,000 citizens of St. Louis who have passed away:

January 1. Christian Koch, aged 80, died at Pine and Quincy.

January 3. Nicholas Schaffer, aged 65, at 2120 Morgan, of heart disease...

Lewis B. Beach, Circuit Attorney, aged 32, at 2120 Clark avenue, of caronic peritonitis.

January 4. James C. Moody, at the age of 63, once very wealthy and a Judge of the Circuit Court; he died at the City Hosptial, an object of charity, of senile debility.

January 13. Margaretta Werger, an old citizen, aged 91, at 3159 Linn.

January 18. Wm. C. Taylor, a old and once very wealthy citizen, at the age of 59. He was seized with spasms, the result of alcoholism, while in a saloon, and died at the City Hospital.

January 24. Samuel Fenby, a respected merchant, aged 70, of hear disease, at 2810 Locust."

 

MORE TO COME....