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. >> > 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