I found a record of one ancestor in Illinois that said she was "poisoned." I was convinced that maybe her husband poisoned her! (Ok, so I have a good imagination!) Turns out from another article that she died of multiple bee stings from a swarm of bees. Guess that is a poisoning, in a way. mk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan and Kay" <dpogrant@new.rr.com> To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] ilnesses of emigrants >I have been typing obituaries, most from the 1930's in the Appanoose area , > and the last one I did was of a woman who died from typhoid. She was the > third one who had died from drinking from the same well on the home farm. > I have several obits where a bull gored a farmer to death, a baby that > died > when he pulled a table cloth and a hot meal fell on him, a baby that fell > into a bucket filled with milk. The ones of the young children are so > sorrowful. My mothers brother died in the early 1920's when he was two. > She said that he had swallowed a kernel of corn and it went down a wrong > "pipe". I have often wondered if that was true. His obit said "he > suffered > much in the two weeks of his illness for it was constant". > I have typed many obits that also tell of the illness of men coming home > from the Civil War or WW I. Many had been gassed while overseas and they > never recovered. > > Kay in Wisconsin > > >> It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just >> smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. >> In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared >> between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or >> month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours >> and >> mine. >> A new section of my county website deals with this subject. >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm >> >> I hope this may help someone. >> >> donkelly >> >> > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >