Alexander Macdonald

[JuliaP]

Although the death of Alexander Macdonald , railroad contractor, of Baldwins Mill [Horton} , Jackson County , Michigan's death on 17 April 1874 was mentioned in  the Australian and Michigan papers I haven't been able to find a death certificate or burial stone. He was a native of Fort Augustus , Inverness and he was married I believe to a Jane McDonald. He had lived in Paris, Ontario before this

[blee20]

I just visited Jackson, Michigan for Genealogy research for Alexander and Jane McDonald. I do have death and birth for Alexander. Also, death date within a couple of days. I have a picture of Hugh and Jane, but not Alexander.

[usaPetticrew]

https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/michigan/bibs/michigan-vital-records-guide

1867, Public Act 194: "An Act to Provide for the registration of births, marriages and  deaths." This was Michigan's first vital records registration law. Each township or city had to take an "annual assessment by actual inquiry or otherwise, of the inhabitants thereof, the births and deaths…."

1897,  Public Act 217: Provided for the registration of deaths and the issuing of death certificates that began in 1898.

Michiganology.org contains searchable certificates for 1897-1939 and indexing through 1952.

Ancestry.com has a database:  Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952

At the Ancestry database, there was no entry for an Alexander MacDonald d. 1874.  The only one in Jackson Co. was Alexander Mc Donald, b. 1841, d. 4 Jul 1873.

[shellyesq]

There are free databases with Michigan death records from that time frame. 

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1452402 

https://michiganology.org/uncategorized/collection_cdcc93e0-2671-4013-8ca6-5d97e9e8e734

https://vitalstats.michigan.gov/osr/gendisx/index.asp