US Cities Namesakes' Death Certificates

St Paul, MN: decapitation
Lincoln, NE: gunshot
Pontiac, MI: head trauma (tomahawk)
Cicero IL: decapitation. Head nailed post-mortem to Rostrum by offending tongue
San Diego, CA: infection
San Francisco, CA: exsanguination via stigmata (or self-induced malnutrition)
King County, WA: pre-2005: unspecified gerentological disease(s). Post-2005: gunshot

Quincy, MA: Stroke (?)

Warrenton, VA: Shot through the eye at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Washington, DC: medical malpractice, most likely from bloodletting

New York City, and Albany N.Y. - brain haemorrhage

Austin TX. Pneumonia.

Houston TX. same.

Pittsburgh, PA - apparent heart attack

Jackson, MS: chronic tuberculosis, dropsy, and heart failure.

Fayetteville, NC: pneumonia

Seattle, WA: unknown causes

Bismarck, ND: natural causes

Cody, WY: kidney failure

Romeoville, IL, suicide by poison
Joliet, IL (founded as “Juliet”), suicide by dagger

I live in Victoria, Texas: Uncontrolled Epilepsy Seizures.

Galveston, TX (Bernardo de Galvez): Illness and potentially poison.

Hannibal, Missouri: Suicide by poison.

Seneca (numerous cities and town): Suicide

Corpus Christi, Texas: Crucifixion.

Joseph, Oregon: Of a broken heart.

Buffalo, New York: Overhunting

Juneau, AK: pneumonia

Fairbanks, AK: nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys)

Seward, AK: pneumonia or maybe respiratory infection

Valdez, AK (Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán): unknown

Dallas: heart attack

San Jose: died a happy death according to legend

Fort Worth: cholera

Nashville: struck by a cannonball at the battle of Germantown

Louisville: decapitated by guillotine

Raleigh: decapitation by axe

St. Louis: dysentery, or possibly bubonic plague

Greensboro: sunstroke

Fort Wayne and Waynesboro: gout

Knoxville: infection from swallowing a chicken bone

Charlotte: edema and pneumonia

Montgomery: hit by grapeshot at the Battle of Quebec (1775)

Wolfeboro, N.H.: shot at the Battle of Quebec (1759)

Zebulon, Georgia: “Killed by flying rocks and other debris.”

Eugene, Oregon: “Took ill after trying to save his cattle during a flood in 1861.”

Reno, Nevada - shot by a Confederate sharpshooter

Casper, Wyoming - killed in battle with Lakota and Cheyenne

Custer, SD: any questions?

Just to watch him die?

Monroe (Michigan and Georgia, among others): heart failure and tuberculosis

Columbus, Ohio: gout or maybe Reiter’s Syndrome

Carson City, Nevada: aortic aneurysm

Laramie, Wyoming: disappeared in the mountains and never heard from again

Bozeman, Montana: probably murdered by his partner, who blamed the Arapaho

St. Petersburg, Florida: crucified upside down

Los Angeles: Just…carried off by God’s messengers