Death certificates can supply alot of very useful information but they can also be rife with errors. These are presented "as is" , without any comments, but you should double check, where possible, the individual's own page for more accurate information.
Notice that the racial classifications assigned by the record keepers run the entire gammut (white, colored, mulatto, moor and black) yet we know they were all related and members of the same community. Also notice that the undertaker for alot of these people was Calvin Clark. He was born into the Nanticoke community at Indian River but moved to Kent Co. and married Albeda Coker, then Laura Mosley.
Carney, Catherine
- female / white / widowed
- age: 63 years
- residence: near Beresford
- died: May 23, 1894
- cause of death: complications
Carney, Harriet
- female / C / married
- born: May 20, 1862 in Delaware
- age: 68 years
- occupation: Housework
- residence: West Dover
- father: Joel Durham of DE
- mother: Margaret Muntze of DE
- died: Dec. 22, 1920 in DE (8 a.m.)
- cause of death: chronic valvular heart disease
- buried: Fork Branch
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Carter, Elizabeth
- female / Moor / widowed
- age: 76 years
- residence: near Cheswold
- occupation: housewife
- died: March 26, 1906
- cause of death: paralysis
Carter, George
- male/ race "M"
- age: 70
- residence: Cheswold
- date of death: July 19, 1898
Carter, Hopewell
- male / Col. / married
- husband of Sallie Carter
- born: January 1857
- age: 74 years & 16 days
- residence: Salem Co., NJ
- occupation: farmer
- father: Alexander Carter of MD
- mother: Elizabeth Carter of MD
- died: Feb. 13, 1933 in NJ
- cause of death: large dilated heart
- buried: Cheswold
Coker, John Clayton
- male / C / married
- born: April 23, 1884 in Delaware
- age: 30 years , 9 months & 20 days
- residence : Cheswold
- occupation: farmwork
- father: Moses Coker
- mother: Meary Deain
- died: Feb. 12, 1915 (3 p.m.)
- cause of death: chronic valvular (unclear ) & heart disease
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Coker, Mary Ann
- female / Moor / widow
- born: May 26, 1854 in Delaware
- age: 69 years & 6 months
- occupation: housework
- father: Robert Dean of DE
- mother: Catherine Coker of DE
- residence: Cheswold
- died: November 21, 1923 (11 p.m.)
- cause of death: chronic (unclear) nephritis
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Coker, Moses
- male / Mulatto / married
- age: 49 years
- residence: Kenton
- occupation: farmer
- died: April 25, 1898 in Delaware
- cause of death: consumption
- undertaker: W. L. Pritchett
Dean, Angelina Munson
- female / Negro / widow
- born: November 25, 1843
- age: 73 years
- occupation: housework
- father:Robert Munson
- mother: Jemima Okea
- died: February 1, 1917
- cause of death: broncho-pneumonia
- buried: Swing Cemetery
Dean, Jesse
- male / Moorish / married
- born: July 20, 1858 in Cheswold, DE
- age: 73 years and 22 days
- occupation: Farm work
- residence: Cheswold, DE
- father:Robert Dean of DE.
- mother: Catherine Morgan of DE.
- died: August 12, 1931 (9 p.m.)
- cause of death: carcinoma of Prostate
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Dean, Robert Burton
- male / Colored/ widower
- born: May 16, 1861
- age: 79 years
- occupation: retired
- residence: Wilmington, DE
- father: Robert Dean of Cheswold, DE.
- mother: Catherine Morgan of Cheswold, DE.
- died: December 19, 1940
- cause of death: acute myocarditis, acute cardiac dilation, natural causes
of old age
Durham, Ben
- male / B / married
- age: 71 years
- occupation: farmer
- died: Sept. 1, 1888
- cause of death : gen'l debility
Durham, Catherine
Durham, Enoch
- male / C / married
- born: June 10, 1858
- age: 70 years
- occupation: farmwork
- father: Benjamin Durham of DE
- mother: Sarah Hansley of DE
- residence: Kenton
- died: March 17, 1929 (10 p.m.)
- cause: valvular insuffciciency of the heart
- buried: Manship Church
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Durham, Margaret
- female / Mulatto / married
- age: 78 years
- residence: near Kenton
- died: April 14, 1895 in DE
Durham, Margaret
- female / Black / widow
- born: June 10, 1838
- age: 86 years, 3 months & 17 days
- residence: near Dover
- occupation: housework
- father: John Mosly of DE
- mother: not known
- died: Sept. 28, 1919
- cause of death: senile dementia
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Pritchett
Durham, Sallie Ann
- Female / Moor / widowed
- age: 81 years
- occupation: farmer's wife
- residence: near Cheswold
- died: Nov. 11, 1905
- cause of death: old age & gen'l debility
- undertaker: W. Pritchett
Hansley, Cornelius
- male / white / widower
- age: 55 years
- residence: Milford Neck DE
- occupation: Farmer
- cause of death: peritonitis
- died: August 18, 1899
Jackson, Robert B.
- male / C / widower
- age: 73 years, 10 month & 15 days
- occupation: farmer
- died: Dec. 12, 1915 ( 1 p.m.)
- cause of death: pneumonia
- father: Westly Jackson of DE
- mother: Heslin Jackson of De
- residence: Millsboro, Sussex Co., DE
- buried: Johnson's Chapel
Morgan, James K.
- male / C / widower
- born: July 4, 1851 in Delaware
- age: 81 years
- occupation: carpenter
- father: William H. Morgan of DE
- mother: Annie Sanders of DE
- residence: Cheswold, Kent Co.
- died: Oct. 10, 1931 (4 a.m.)
- cause of death: nephritis chronic & enlarged prostate gland
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Morgan, John
- male / Moor / married
- born: Feb. 17, 1840 in Delaware
- age: 84 years, 11 months & 4 days
- occupation: farmwork
- father: William Morgan of DE
- mother: Annie Saunders of DE
- died: Jan. 21, 1925 (4 p.m.)
- cause: chronic intestinal nephritis
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Morgan, Mamie
- female / Colored / married
- wife of Edward Morgan
- born: Dec. 17, 1897 in Delaware
- age: 30 years
- occupation: Housewife
- father: Enoch Durham of DE
- mother: Margaret Muntz of DE
- residence: Pittsgrove , NJ
- place of death: Fairview Sanitarium, Burlington Co., NJ
- died: Oct. 31, 1929 in NJ (6:15 a.m.)
- cause of death: pulmonary T.B.
- buried: Cheswold, De (Manship)
Morgan, Mary
- female / C / married
- born: Sept. 9, 1844 in Delaware
- age: 79 years, 19 days
- occupation: housework
- father: John Coker of DE
- mother: Eliza Jackson of DE
- residence: Cheswold
- died: Sept. 20, 1923 (11 p.m.)
- cause of death: fractured hip/ gen'l debility (fell down stairs)
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Morgan, Naomi
- female / Negro / single
- born: 1924 in NJ
- age: 5 years
- father: Edward Morgan of Cheswold, DE
- mother: Mamie Durham of Cheswold, DE
- place of death: Children's Seashore House, Atlantic City, NJ
- died: Nov. 7, 1929 (8:45 a.m.)
- cause of death: TB Hip Joint and myocarditis
- buried: Manship
Morgan, William
- male / black / widower
- age: 83 years
- residence: Seven Hickories
- occupation: Farmer
- died: April 1, 1891
- cause of death : paralysis
Munce, Zadock
- Male / Moor / Married
- age: 71 years
- residence: Cheswold
- occupation: Farmer
- died: June 2 {1905}
- Death reported: 10 Oct. 1905
- cause of death: Congestion of Lungs
- undertaker: R. L. Pritchett
Muntz, Elmira
- female / Moor / widow
- born: August 18, 1844 in Maryland
- age: 78 years
- residence: Cheswold
- occupation: housework
- father: James Mason of Maryland
- mother: Rebecca Carter of Maryland
- died: Jan. 18, 1922 (11 a.m.)
- cause of death: chronic valvular heart disease
- buried: Forest Grove
- undertaker: Calvin Clark
Ridgeway, Cornelius
- male / Moor /
- born: March 1842 in Delaware
- age: 76 years
- occupation: laborer
- father: William Ridgeway of DE
- mother: Deby Hanzer of DE
- died" March 1918 in DE (date of death not filled in)
- cause of death: central(?) thrombosis
- buried: Manship
- undertaker: W. L. Pritchett
Ridgway, Rebecca
(copied in 1990 by archivist)
- female / Black / married
- age: 69 years
- residence: Cheswold
- occupation: housework
- father: John D. Scott (should be Cott) of DE
- mother: Sarah Dean of DE
- died: May 15, 1913
- cause of death: old age
Mary Elizabeth Sammons
- female/ Moor/ married
- born:Sept. 8, 1841 in Delaware
- occupation: housewife
- father:Robert Munce of DE.
- mother: Jamima Hanzor of DE
- died: Nov. 9, 1914
- cause of death: Esostris (?) Catarrh
- buried: Manship Church on Nov. 12, 1914
- informant: Nemiah Sammons
Sisco, Araminta
- Moor / widow
- age: 66 years
- residence: Cheswold
- died: Oct. 1, 1902
- cause of death: pneumonia
