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