US Cities Namesakes' Death Certificates

Phoenix, AZ - burned, but reborn from the ashes.

Same with St. Marys, Georgia, and St. Mary’s City, Maryland.

Philadelphia: Defeated in the economic arena by Enterprise, Alabama, and City of Industry, California…

Prescott, AZ - Stroke.
Yarnell, AZ - “Heart Troubles."

Actually, St. Mary died (presumably of natural causes) and then her body disappeared from her tomb.

Oh yeah, and add Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Augusta, GA: throat cancer

Frankfort, KY: killed by Indians in a skirmish

Irving, TX: heart attack

Scottsdale AZ: hernia

1/2 of Wilkes-Barre PA: * “That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship’s principles or your mistress.”*

Cite? The Bible doesn’t mention her death or the disappearance of her body from her tomb.

According to Catholic doctrine (and of some others) Mary was “assumed body and soul” into heaven. The doctrine does not state whether she suffered physical death.

(I am of course only noting the doctrine about the Virgin Mary, not alleging that this actually happened.)

Marquette, Michigan: died after a bout of dysentery

Durham, North Carolina: pneumonia

Jefferson City, Missouri: fever

Decatur, Illinois: killed in a duel

Lewiston, Montana: suicide

St. Lawrence County NY (and St. Lawrence River): roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian

Dare County NC: probably starved as a child.

Cincinnati, Ohio (and Cincinnatus, New York): Old age on his farm.

Just note that those two might refer to two different Marys. Possibly. For the state - overdose

Fremont, CA and smaller cities, counties, etc. (Frémont) - peritonitis.

Berkeley, Livermore, CA - natural causes?

Berkley (either in reference to above or the town in MA) - chronic misspelling.

Carson City, NV - abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Various Humboldts - complications due to stroke. I’m sure there’s a joke there for the county if you look hard enough.

Assume Lewiston ME is the same guy.

Pulaski, VA, TN, GA, NY, IL-- battle wounds

Frederick, MD - Fever.

Westbrook, ME: Broken heart
Lake Champlain: Stroke

Yes. In parochial school we were taught that although the state was named after the English queen, this was a subterfuge by the Catholic Calverts to actually honor the Virgin Mary.

Julesburg, Colorado: tied to a fencepost, shot, and had his ears cut off

Miles City, Montana: heart attack while attending a circus

Orlando, Florida: possibly killed by Seminoles (if he ever existed)

Annapolis, Maryland: stroke

Lubbock, Texas: typhoid

San Luis Obispo: fever, probably typhoid

OTOH, for Victoria BC: cerebral hemorage

Lewiston ID: either suicide or murder
Clarkston WA: unknown

Kosciusko (not all of them cities - MS, MO, IN, AK, and NSW) - falling off a horse, then fever, then stroke.

Sneaky! By hiding behind Henrietta Maria of France, who I’m pretty sure was Presbyterian like all French people.