> I did a chart one time for the funerals handled by the funeral home in Atlanta, Illinois, which isn't more than 30-40 miles from some parts of Woodford Co... to demonstrate the effect of epidemics. There was a big peak in 1865, which I relate partly to soldiers returning from the South with all sorts of infections, but there was another, longer run from 1870-1874 of higher than normal deaths. Someday I am going to run some figures on my 33000 person database of family and see if any > patterns emerge. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [ILWOODFORD] epidemic 1866? > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:04:23 -0600 > From: Tom Baker <tjbaker@alltel.net> > To: ILWOODFO-L@rootsweb.com > > 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 >