I ran across this listing and thought that I would pass it on. This list could provide some answers as to why some of our ancestors died at certain periods: 1657 - Boston -- Measles 1687 - Boston -- Measles 1690 - New York --Yellow Fever 1713 - Boston -- Measles 1729 - Boston -- Measles 1732-3 - Worldwide -- Influenza 1738 - South Carolina -- Smallpox 1739-40 - Boston -- Measles 1747 - CT,NY,PA,SC -- Measles 1759 - North America [areas inhabited by white people] -- Measles 1761 - North America and West Indies -- Influenza 1772 - North America -- Measles 1775 - North America [especially hard in Northeast] epidemic -- Unknown 1775-6 - Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] -- Influenza 1783 - Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] -- Bilious Disorder 1784 - New Bern, NC (Craven Co) -- Yellow Fever 1788 - Philadelphia and New York -- Measles 1793 - Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and -- Influenza 1793 - Virginia [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] -- Influenza 1793 - Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] -- Yellow Fever 1793 - Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] -- Unknown 1793 - Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] -- Unknown 1794 - Philadelphia, PA -- Yellow Fever 1796-7 - Philadelphia, PA -- Yellow Fever 1798 - Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] -- Yellow Fever 1798 - New Bern, NC (Craven Co) -- Yellow Fever 1803 - New York -- Yellow Fever 1820-3 - Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] -- "Fever" 1831-2 - Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] -- Asiatic Cholera 1832 - New York City and other major cities -- Cholera 1837 - Philadelphia -- Typhus 1841 - Nationwide [especially severe in the south] -- Yellow Fever 1847 - New Orleans -- Yellow Fever 1847-8 - Worldwide -- Influenza 1848-9 - North America -- Cholera 1850 - Nationwide -- Yellow Fever 1850-1 - North America -- Influenza 1852 - Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] -- Yellow Fever 1855 - Nationwide [many parts] -- Yellow Fever 1857-9 - Worldwide [one of the greated epidemics] -- Influenza 1860-1 - Pennsylvania -- Smallpox 1865-73 - Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans -- Smallpox 1865-73 - Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC -- Cholera [A series of recurring epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever] 1873-5 - North America and Europe -- Influenza 1878 - New Orleans [last great epidemic] -- Yellow Fever 1885 - Plymouth, PA -- Typhoid 1886 - Jacksonville, FL -- Yellow Fever 1918 - Worldwide [high point year] -- Influenza In the late 1830s, a typhus epidemic hit Seneca County, Ohio. In 1844, typhoid fever and typhus swept Summit County, Ohio (and eliminated some of my Clay ancestors). I am really curious about a possible epidemic in LaSalle County, Illinois in the late 1840s; imagine it was probably typhoid. One late comment concerning the yellow fever epidemic that hit New Orleans in 1878. It claimed the life of Civil War General John Bell Hood and several members of his family. Barbara Dr. Barbara Inman Beall DrBIBeall@aol.com, BBeall43@yahoo.com, BIBeall@email.msn.com, barbara_beall@hotmail.com Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/BBeall43/Home_page.html Online Journal: http://twigs-of-inman-spence.rootsweb.com For permission to access MyFamily.com website, please send requests to: Barbara4902@MyFamily.com