Fulton County subscribers might be interested in the following mention of the Cholera Epidemic of 1851. It's taken, in part, from the 1890 biography of a Vermont Twp resident. "....In an account of the Asiatic cholera epidemic that raged in Fulton county in 1851, the unremitting and arduous services of our subject in caring for the sick and dying received honorable mention. While many fled from the scene of affliction, he was one of the faithful few, who heroically stood at the post of duty to the bitter end. Night and day from June until September, with characteristic self-sacrifice and pitying kindness, he adminstered to the afflicted, doing all that he could to allay their distress; and he tenderly assisted in the burial of the dead. He witnessed many sad scenes with an aching heart. Men who assisted in burying a victim of the dread disease in the morning, were often stricken with the cholera and would be dead before night. About seventy died in this neighborhood in a few weeks time, our subject being one of the small number who escaped." ################ I once read another account describing such fear in the neighborhoods, that often mere children were left with a shovel to bury their dead parents, because everyone was afraid to go near the bodies. Lyde