In a message dated 3/17/2002 12:29:27 PM Mountain Standard Time, swrobel@ragingbull.com writes: > 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. > Just to add to the chorus about civil war ills. My gggrdfather, Capt Rufus Hurlbut Lucore, from Marion IA, came home injured and with smallpox from the battle of Vicksburg, inoculated many of his 17 children against smallpox but died from it himself in 1863. Wayne Lucore