Unusual causes of death (blood, nation, search, certificate)

[STLCardsBlues1989]

A 5-year-old died of toxemia from eating Walnut kernels.

[STLCardsBlues1989]

Gangrene of the Bowel.

No I don't know exactly how that works and I don't want to.

[Trimac20]

Maybe not unusual, just sad...two of my mum's uncles commited suicide by jumping off tall buildings, and my cousin did the same thing 2 years ago .

There's a very strong history of depression on mum's side of the family.

[STLCardsBlues1989]

Found a 39-year-old married woman who died of "Chronic pyosalpinx, operative gonorrhea, Shock" in 1924.

I doubt she got gonorrhea from sexual exploits because she was married with children. I've read that sometimes pyosalpinx can be caused by a botched abortion, but that would seem unusual since she was married and only 39 (most women back then still had kids until menopause).

Could it be gonorrheal pyosalpinx? I've read that be caused by a tubal pregnancy. She had her last child in 1920, so obviously if she was pregnant the child in this case did not survive. Or perhaps gonorrhea caused infection in her falopian tubes which caused the pyosalpinx? I just find it strange that a woman in her class and situation would get gonorrhea after having been married 19 years.

It's very strange.

[bjh]

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Sadly it was likely brought home by her spouse.

[Westerntraveler]

one of my relatives was a rebel soldier who got killed by the North and one of my cousins got killed by the Germans on D-Day.his 2 brothers were wounded.I assumed it was with a 7.92 x57 mm machine gun or a shell

[STLCardsBlues1989]

Found one struck by lightning.

A person who I think may have been a relative (same last name and same area about the same time) was killed by a hay fork.

[theother]

My aunt had schizophrenia, she heard voices the day before she died she screamed "Someone is trying to kill me, but I won't let them." Then the next day she sent her son to the store to get some milk he came back and she had shot herself.

A cousin of mine was tortured and killed by a hit man in the 50's.

A friend of my mother got into a car accident and was ejected from the car and then was hit by another car.

Sad

[STLCardsBlues1989]

Congestion of Brain and Overwork. He was a farmer. He was 29.

From the symptoms I've read about congestion of the brain, I wonder if maybe it was actually heatstroke.

[Va-Cat]

Have a relative in the tree that died of asphyxiation back in the 1880s in Texas. While digging a little deeper into that side of the family, I found out that he was hung for being a horse thief!