In a message dated 02/05/2000 1:44:03 PM Central Standard Time, erlabri@home.com writes: << Maybe my memory is way off... but wasn't there a hurricane in 1915? I suppose that those living in the area could have been exposed to typhoid or other diseased after an event like that. Jan G. Ypmiller50@cs.com wrote: In a message dated 02/04/2000 9:11:09 PM Central Standard Time, RDCarnley@aol.com writes: Does anyone know of an epidemic of any kind in Nacogdoches County in 1915 or 1916? I had four members of one family die in January 1916. Two on the same date. >> Jan, I looked in the Texas Almanac and there was a Hurricane 1915, but it was in August, so this is after the deaths mentioned above. That's a good thought, though, don't know what else it could be. Yolanda Pepper Miller