The Victims

The exact number of Yellow Fever deaths in Holly Springs is unknown. The following list is the most complete list of Yellow Fever victims available, using all known contemporary and primary sources, including mortuary lists. The list includes all confirmed victims of the Yellow Fever who died in Holly Springs. Citizens who died of Yellow Fever in other towns but are buried in Holly Springs are not included in this list of official victims.

The following list contains 304 names. Of these, 91 have a burial marker or monument in Hill Crest Cemetery.  The remaining victims are likely buried in Hill Crest Cemetery, in unmarked graves or graves that were originally marked with wooden markers. The existence of a “Yellow Fever mass grave” is questionable, though “burial trenches” are mentioned in the historic record.

All Yellow Fever monuments and markers in Hill Crest Cemetery are in a gallery below the list of victims. `

The following sources were used to compile this list: A History of the Yellow Fever: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn, J. M. Keats (1879); The Epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi: Report of the Yellow Fever Relief Work, J. L. Power (1879) Holly Springs Occasional, (published every month during the Yellow Fever Epidemic, with lists of all Yellow Fever victims; 1878); Yellow Fever Days Now 50 Years Gone, South Reporter article, John Mickle (1928); Cemeteries of Marshall County, (2nd Edition), Bobby Mitchell (2002); Examination of Hill Crest Cemetery monuments, Robert Patterson, Bobby Mitchell and Phillip Knecht (2018).

August 25th:

Samuel L. Downs

Delia Lake

 


 

August 31st:

A. W. Goodrich

 


 

September 1st:

A. T. Wiltshire

 


 

September 2nd:

William Makin

James G. Chism

 


September 3rd:

Isaac Tandler

 


September 4th:

Garland Brown (child of A.F.)

Frank A. Ganter

Robert Waite McClain

 


September 5th:

Willie Bateman

James Fort

William Hogan

Louisa J. Knapp

Mrs. James Nuttall

Barton P. Oliver

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Thomas

 


September 6th:

Samuel Abernathy

John H. Chenowith

Adeline E. C. Leak

Samuel Crockett

Alexander Fox Moore

Benjamin Duke Nabers

Lemuel Augustus “Gus” Smith

Child of Herman Snider

William R. Todd

 


September 7th:

Dr. Charles Bonner

Samuel Wilson Bonner

Brodie S. Crump

Charles Glassy

James Nuttall

James Thomson Walker

Richard Watson

 


 

September 8th:

Unknown Woman (Mrs. Blank)

Henry Bateman

Martha L. Bateman

Julia Pryor Waite

 


September 9th:

R. G. Campbell

Thomas A. Falconer

Virginia Lynch

Ulysses H. Ross

George Wing

 


September 10th:

A. A. Armstrong

Harry F. Brinkley

Charles R. Chenowith

William Crump

Sarah Fannie Dougherty

Robert Wallace Fort

Hal Johnson

Wesley J. Marett

J. C. Potter

Annie F. Pryor

Clem Read

Corilla Record

Alex Seyple

Victor Smith

William C. Wooten

 


 

September 11th:

Maria S.V. Daniel

Joseph Richard Daniel

Clarissa Davis

Winfield S. Featherston Jr.

Father Antonio Anacleto Oberti

Charles Schneider

 


 

September 12th:

Henry Epps

Scott Epps

Minerva Lynch

Miss Read

 


September 13th:

Robert S. Brinkley

James Wesley Brannon

Hannah Hastings

Dina Ingram

Sam Kimball

Lizzie Lane

Mrs. John Potter

Edward Ward Upshaw

 


September 14th:

Mariah Anderson

 


 

September 15th:

George Johnson

George Kimball

Pat McGuire

 


 

September 16th:

Laura Demmey

Mr. Dunn

Lotta Ingraham

James M. Kean

Mrs. George Kimball

Angeline Quiggins

Lewis B. Thomson

Francis M. Fennell

 


 

September 17th:

Ben Boyd

Ben Hardy Cayce

Elizabeth McEwen Featherston

Margaret Miller

Mary Stewart

Caroline Washington

Amanda Melvina Watson

Peter Webber

 


September 18th:

Amelia Forman

Mrs. Martin Knable

Jane McGary

J. H. Stone

J. W. Webber

 


 

September 19th:

William Collins

Stephen Knapp

Child of Rebecca Lea

Lucinda Sims

Sarah B. Thomson

Harvey Washington Walter

 


 

September 20th:

Ephraim Thomas Brinkley

Lizzie Butler

Howard Falconer

John P. Fennell

Dr. T. D. Manning

 


September 21st:

Julia Stojowski

Hugh Winborn

 


 

September 22nd:

Henry Carter

Child of Mollie Cox

Jim Fowler

Mary Gholson

Charles Harris

Henry Harris

John Larouche

Eugene Leidy Jr.

Sister Stanislaus Morrissey

Avant Walter

 


September 23rd:

Darthula Allen

Liza Allen

Nancy Allen

Kinloch Falconer

Henry Morton

Albert Rollins

Mrs. Stone

 


 

September 24th:

Willie Castello

John W. Fennell

Son of Mrs. Gaitley

Margaret Glassey

Child of Thomas Henderson

Amelia Maughan

 


 

September 25th:

Jacob Berry

Parker Hebdon

Elizabeth Williams Hutchinson

Dan Phillips

John Power

Annie Stewart

 


 

September 26th:

Allen Goulden

Mrs. Harrington

Son of Hempton

James R. L. Hunt

Dr. Lewis

J. M. Lumpkin

Mrs. Jeff McGowan

Sister Stella Fitzgerald

Frank Walter

James Walter

James Madison Wells

Child of William Yancy

Mrs. Yancy

Gordan D. H. “Guy” Allen

 


September 27th:

John Banks

Glenn Fant

Mr. Gholston

John W. Hastings

Mr. Johnston

Kate O’Gray

Cowan Roxy

Mrs. Archie Straws

Elizabeth Wells

 


September 28th:

Unknown African-American Child

Lizzie Georgia Featherston

Lucy Fort

Alex Hohenwart

Mrs. McGhery

Mrs. Crown McGuire

Austin Saunders

Sister Margarette Kelly

Martin Thomas

Mollie Virginia

Thomas Wade

Eli Walker

 


September 29th:

Eli Chew

John German

Mrs. McDermott

Dr. W. O. McKinney

Dan J. Oliver

L. P. Parish

John Pearson

Unknown Person

Unknown White Female

C. H. Walker

William Washington

 


September 30th:

Flora Anderson

Smith Baker

Christina Carlson

Henry Elliott

Infant child of Joseph Herr

Rufus Howard

Randall Moore

James McKean

Doctor Raymond

Sister Corinthia Mahoney

Infant of Strauss

D. Jeffries

 


 

October 1st:

Henry Cowan

A. C. Henderson

Joseph Herr

Mrs. Joseph Herr

Haywood McKissack

Mrs. Parish

Mike Tiernan

 


October 2nd:

Augustus Bowman

Joseph C. Hess

Jane Hill

Martin Knable

Child of Maughhan

H. J. McKeogh

Julia Roberts

Peter Stineman

Amanda Sutton

Martha Walker

Child of Webber

 


October 3rd:

William Compton

Selden Fant

Thomas Gilbert

Daniel Gray

Child of Hal Johnson

Lizzie Malsi

Mrs. B. A. Myers

Stanley Wells

 


October 4th:

Edward Hull Crump

Mr. Daily

James V. Henry

 


October 5th:

Lucius Boxley

Child of Millie Bradford

Isaac J. Diller

Henry Edmondson

John Hawkins

Mr. Miller

Sister Victoria Stafford

 


October 6th:

Priscilla Allen

Jacob Malsi

George Strather

 


 

October 7th:

Jane Craft (Wife of Dow)

 


October 8th:

James G. Adams

Allen Brogden

 


October 9th:

James McHugh

George Parks

 


October 10th:

Mrs. Haley

 


 

October 11th:

Child of Charles Harris

Jeff McGowan

Sister Laurentia Harrison

 


 

October 12th:

Ida McGowan

Mrs. James Miller

G. Thomas

 


 

October 13th:

Jacob Krouse

Alsey Lea

 


 

October 14th:

Edward Brim

Mrs. Lane

Willie Price

Milly Shotwell

 


 

October 15th:

Paton Edmondson

Son of Skoesburg

 


 

October 16th:

John Ellis

Joshua Watson

 


October 17th:

Child of Paton Edmondson

Charity Gaines

 


October 18th:

Joseph (Joel) Lackey

Dennis Lane

 


 

October 19th:

James Calvin

Burton Connington

Edwin Willis (Willis Edwards)

 


October 20th:

Rachael Cochran

Polly Martin

Henry Vandive

 


October 21st:

Robert King

Lula Lesseur

Mr. Mooney

Jesse Mercer Yowell

 


 

October 22nd:

Mrs. Compton

Son of Peter Gealor

Thomas Dresler

Amelia Martin

Al Rogers

 


 

October 23rd:

Harriett Moseley

 


October 24th:

John Kimbrough

Josephine Martin

John Tiernan

 


 

October 25th:

Dennis Gaitwood

Mrs. Peter Gheelan

William J. L. Holland

Mrs. Dr. McKinney

 


 

October 26th:

Mrs. Byers

Mrs. Gutheries

 


 

October 28th:

Mrs. Sam Coftin

Henry Gowan

 


October 29th:

Cora McWilliams

 


October 30th:

Ted Nellums


November 1st:

Twins of Mrs. R. A. McWilliams

 


November 2nd:

Child of Mrs. Henry Armstead

Thomas Hebdon Jr.

 


November 5th:

Robert Adams

Eugene Cochran

 


November 14th:

Child of W. T. Barry

 


November 15th:

James Donohue

 


November 18th:

J. E. Tobin

 


November 24th:

Mollie McDermott

 


Yellow Fever Monuments and Markers

Hill Crest Cemetery