Mary Headrick, aged three, died of croup in October 1849, Hawkins County, Tennessee.

Mary Headrick was born about 1846 (probably in Hawkins County, Tennessee), and died of croup at the age of three, in October 1849, in Hawkins County, Tennessee. She had been ill for four days. Her brief life is memorialized by a listing in the 1850 US Mortality Schedule for Tennessee, a record covering the year ending June 1850.

United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, Schedule 3, page 335, Hawkins County, Tennessee: Mary Headrick, aged three. Birth estimated at 1846 (indexed as 1847). Death: Oct 1849. Cause of Death: Croup. Ill 4 days. [Death place concluded as Hawkins County, Tennessee, US. Birth place is probably Hawkins County, Tennessee (but not proven so), being the place of death at a young age. Extract by D.K. Pritchett]

"United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSTN-PHW : 29 July 2017), Mary Headrick, all townships, All counties, Tennessee, United States; citing line 19, NARA microfilm publication T655 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 422,433.