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Forest Hill Cemetery

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Forest HUI Cemetery aasociatlon elected three director to serve for three years, last Tuesday. II. 8. Dean, C. II.' Richmond and J.M. Wheeler were re-elected. The treasurer'a report showed that the association lias 12,786 invested securities, besides a c;ish balance of $1,032.20. The expenditures for the year were $1.335.70, including monies invested. The iiicrease of securities during the year was 81 ,822.42. During the year 1891, there were 115 Lnterments, the youngest bei Dg a child of live, ihiys. and the oldest beitiR ninety-six years, three months and twenty-one days. Study of the ages of those buried shows a smal] infaot raortality, and a large one among aged people, speaking well for the healthrulness of Ann Arbor. Tlienumber under one year old was 11; between one and live, 11; between live and ten, 1; between ten and twenty, 4; between twenty and thirty, 10; between thirty and l'orty, 8; between i'orty andfifty, 10; between fittyand sixty, 10; between sixty and seventy, 17; between seventy and eighty, 17; between eiglity and ninety, 11; over ninety, 1. Sixty-nine of the bnrials were of residents of Ann Arbor, fourteen were from Ann Arbor town, and the balance were from the remaining towns and counties and from six other states. Not a single one died from typhoid fever. There was only one from malarial fever. The principal causes of death were heart disease and heart failnre, 13; accidents, 6; consumption, 6; old age, 6; general debility, 5; pneumonĂ­a, 5; bronchitis, 3, and measles, 4.