Carol, You might connect Linda Manlove at LManlove@aol.com. I am the new host of the ALHN (American Local History Network) Schuyler County, Illinois and Robin and I are working together to get everything we can up on both sites. My site is at < http://www.usgennet.org/~ahilschu > I've just started but am trying to get something up every day. Sara Tom&Carol Miller wrote: > > Hi Listers: > To Pat who was asking about diseases in Schuyler Co. I will include at > the bottom of this note what I have found relating to the diseases. It > seems to be an earlier time frame than what you were asking about, tho. > > Robin is doing a great job on her page, the diseases will be included in > the Rushville History. A lot of the other histories have been posted, > along with lots of other new things. If you haven't checked out her > pages yet, then do so! The histories aren't all up yet, but keep > checking, a new one has been posted about every day. She has other > items of intersest that has been newly added to her list! > > Also, to the ones researching the Manlove surname. In the county > histories, I have seen that name mentioned a lot! > > The cholera in July, 1834, swooped down with its pinion of death and > proved a besom of destruction to many in the Rushville settlement. The > town then contained seven or eight hundred inhabitants, and so virulent > was the disease that most of them fled to other parts of the country. > Only about three hundred were left to take care of the sick and dying. > Over a hundred afflicted, and nearly one half proved fatal. > > Happy Hunting, > Carol