Deaths Registered in the Town of Dennis for the Year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
No.: Seventy one
Date of Death: January 10th [1879]
Name: Tamson Kelley
Sex: Female
Condition: Widow
Age: 80 [sic, see comment following]
Cause: Appoplexy
Place of Death: Dennis
Occupation: House work
Place of Birth: Harwich
Parents: Deaniel & Debroah Chase [sic, see comment following]
Parents Birthplaces: Harwich & do [i.e., ditto, "Dennis" from 2 lines above]
[Note: maiden name given as Clark on death records of some of her children, plus marriage record in Harwich. Age is contradicted by gravestone, which is thought to be accurate, based on marriage in 1806, impossible if born in 1799 as shown here.]