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. >> I don't know if you received an answer to your question yet, but I do know the following information about an influenza epidemic, 1918 being the highpoint year of it, your family may have been on the beginning side of it. Hope it helps. SOURCE: Epidemics Through Time. 1918 - Worldwide [high point year] Influenza: more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. Yolanda Pepper Miller