# US Cities Namesakes' Death Certificates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175 "2014-07-27T17:49:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/1 "2014-07-27T17:49:13Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/2 "2014-07-27T17:54:12Z")
Quincy, MA: Stroke (?) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/3 "2014-07-27T18:19:23Z")
Warrenton, VA: Shot through the eye at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Washington, DC: medical malpractice, most likely from bloodletting ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/4 "2014-07-27T18:23:43Z")
New York City, and Albany N.Y. - brain haemorrhage ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/5 "2014-07-27T18:27:21Z")
Austin TX. Pneumonia. Houston TX. same. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/6 "2014-07-27T18:34:21Z")
Pittsburgh, PA - apparent heart attack ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/7 "2014-07-27T18:41:10Z")
Jackson, MS: chronic tuberculosis, dropsy, and heart failure. Fayetteville, NC: pneumonia Seattle, WA: unknown causes Bismarck, ND: natural causes Cody, WY: kidney failure ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/8 "2014-07-27T19:07:25Z")
[Romeoville, IL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeoville,_Illinois), suicide by poison [Joliet, IL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet,_Illinois) (founded as “Juliet”), suicide by dagger ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/9 "2014-07-27T22:54:55Z")
I live in Victoria, Texas: Uncontrolled Epilepsy Seizures. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/10 "2014-07-27T22:58:49Z")
Galveston, TX (Bernardo de Galvez): Illness and potentially poison. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/11 "2014-07-27T23:49:27Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/12 "2014-07-28T00:06:21Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/13 "2014-07-28T01:46:50Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/14 "2014-07-28T02:12:55Z")
Charlotte: edema and pneumonia Montgomery: hit by grapeshot at the Battle of Quebec (1775) Wolfeboro, N.H.: shot at the Battle of Quebec (1759) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/15 "2014-07-28T02:31:35Z")
Zebulon, Georgia: “Killed by flying rocks and other debris.” Eugene, Oregon: “Took ill after trying to save his cattle during a flood in 1861.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/16 "2014-07-28T02:52:34Z")
Reno, Nevada - shot by a Confederate sharpshooter Casper, Wyoming - killed in battle with Lakota and Cheyenne ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/17 "2014-07-28T03:47:53Z")
Custer, SD: any questions? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/18 "2014-07-28T04:01:23Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Reno, Nevada - shot by a Confederate sharpshooter Just to watch him die? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/19 "2014-07-28T04:23:39Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175/20 "2014-07-28T06:42:23Z")
Los Angeles: Just…carried off by God’s messengers [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-cities-namesakes-death-certificates/694175.md?page=2)