This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dine , Fricker , Fraker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Jh.2ADI/1348.1 Message Board Post: My grandmother told me about some terrible epidemic that hit Spearsville. I don't know what the disease was. But, I believe it fit into that time frame. She said that many children died. Also, they buried everyone who died from it in a far back spot off the cemetery in Spearsville & closed the area off. I would like to hear any information that anyone has on this. Cathy