The AHLN site for Illinois has a link to epidemics in Illinois from a 1927 book or report from the state department of public health. Select "Historical Illinois Links", then "Illinois Trails State Epidemics" on the next page. The address for the AHLN site is: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/state/index.html To jump directly to the epidemics site go to: http://www.iltrails.org/ilhealth.htm The site does show a cholera epidemic in 1866, although no specific dates and locations. It does suggest that the outbreak was widespread. Dan Steffen At 01:04 AM 3/17/02 -0700, you wrote: >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 20:20:38 -0500 >From: "Mary Kocak" <Mary_K@centurytel.net> >To: ILWOODFO-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <00be01c1cd51$f2fb8720$6601a8c0@marys> >Subject: [ILWOODFORD] epidemic 1866? >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >I just received some info and I have a family where a 2 yr old died on >July 20 1866, her 11 yr. old sister died on August 6 1866 and their father >died on August 4, 1866 >I know that there were outbreaks of Cholera, Typhus and small pox around >this time. Just wondering if there was an epidemic at this time in >Woodford or if anyone else has many deaths in the summer of 1866 in their >information. >Thanks, >Mary >interesting site for epidemics, abbreviations and naming trends for children >http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmarsha/info.htm > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:04:23 -0600 >From: Tom Baker <tjbaker@alltel.net> >To: ILWOODFO-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3C9423D7.5011E897@alltel.net> >Subject: Re: [ILWOODFORD] epidemic 1866? >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Last week, I received cemetery listings for my Baker family in the Oakwood >Cemetery in Metamora. My gg-grandparents had 5 of their 9 children die >there between 1863 and 1868, the oldest being 13 years old and the >youngest only 9 >months old. The youngest died on April 27, 1867. I had been wondering if >they had died from an outbreak of some disease. When did these epidemics >start, and when did they end? > >Tom > >Mary Kocak wrote: > > > I just received some info and I have a family where a 2 yr old died on > July 20 1866, her 11 yr. old sister died on August 6 1866 and their > father died on August 4, 1866 > > I know that there were outbreaks of Cholera, Typhus and small pox > around this time. Just wondering if there was an epidemic at this time in > Woodford or if anyone else has many deaths in the summer of 1866 in their > information. > > Thanks, > > Mary > > interesting site for epidemics, abbreviations and naming trends for > children > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmarsha/info.htm > > > > ==== ILWOODFO Mailing List ==== > > Woodford County website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwoodfo/index.htm