GIST, HELLMAN, INSLEY, MADISON "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Thursday, March 23, 1911 HAND IN ANOTHER'S POCKET; APOLOGIZES. Excusing himself for having his hands in the pockets of Dr. W. L. GIST, chief surgeon at the Emergency hospital, a pickpocket and his accomplice got off a crowded Twelfth street car at Twelfth and Harrison streets at 6 o'clock last night and escaped. Dr. GIST says the two men tried to pick his pocket at McGee street and he grabbed the hand of one of them. Three robberies on street cars by pickpockets between 5 and 6 o'clock last night were reported to the police. All of the "dips" escaped. W. R. MADISON, 138 Linwood avenue, a publisher with an office at 220 Shukert building, was robbed of a pocketbook containing $10 at 5 o'clock on a Rockhill car on Grand avenue, between Tenth and Twelfth streets. He thinks three men jostled him. A purse containing $38 was taken out of the hip pocket of Benjamin HELLMAN, 1714 Prospect, on an Indiana avenue car on Nineteenth street between Campbell and Charlotte streets about 5:30 p.m. Hamlin INSLEY, a carpenter, 3902 East Fourteenth street, got on an eastbound Twelfth street car at Twelfth street and Grand avenue at 5:20 o'clock. When he reached home he found that his pocketbook and $5 had been taken from his hip pocket. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

BUNN, GATES, HUFFMAN, LYONS, MILLER, ROSS "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Wednesday, December 9, 1903 MARRIAGE LICENSES. Issued in Kansas City, Kas. John J. BUNN, Ottawa, Kas ..........................21 Wilma M. GATES, Ottawa, Kas ....................23 James F. HUFFMAN, Kansas City, Kas .......................24 Silvia L. LYONS, Kansas City, Kas .............................15 Julius W. ROSS, Kansas City, Kas ..................41 Mary A. MILLER, Kansas City, Kas ..................31 ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

This is hysterical. Also from picking pockets to drive by shootings. Look how far technology has progressed us. John O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote:"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Thursday, March 23, 1911 WHY HE ACTED QUEERLY. A citizen was seen acting queerly at Eighth street and Grand avenue yesterday evening. He was holding a telegram in his hand. At intervals her would read the message over and swear. When the man bit his cigar in half and threw it on the pavement, he was approached by the big guardian of traffic at that corner, Patrolman PREWITT. "'Smatterth you?" asked PREWITT. "Do you know that women are a daffy lot?" the excited one asked in return. "Some of them are, I'll admit," said PREWITT, "but what ails you?" "Here, read that," and the man thrust the yellow sheet into PREWITT's hand. The wire was from the man's wife who is visiting in a Missouri town about 100 miles distant. It was dated yesterday and read: "Will be home tomorrow morning, or on the late train leaving here in the afternoon. If not then will be home Friday morning or surely on the evening train. Meet me at the depot." "And that was sent collect," shouted the man when he saw that the officer had concluded reading the message, "thirty-four words, count 'em, thirty-four, and there's no information in the whole cheese." "Are you going to meet your wife?" asked PREWITT timidly. "I am going to get a large bun on this evening," said the citizen as he grated his teeth. "In the morning I think I will buy a cot and sleep at the depot, meeting all trains until she arrives." "Why don't you send her a message asking for correct information?" "Say, didn't I just tell you that all women are a daffy lot and my wife is the daffiest of the bunch. She would send me a regular letter back, by wire of course, which would cost me several dollars and then I wouldn't know any more than I do now. To get good and soused is all that is left for me before I begin to stand the long watch at the depot. Meet me at the depot, and she didn't even say what depot. Oh, blixen, what's the use," and the citizen entered the nearest drink dispensary. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ====================================================== ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== USGENWEB SEARCH ARCHIVES http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

BROOKS, JOHNSON, MASSMAN, O'DONNELL, PAYNE, PROBSACO, RENNER, SHOEMAKER, WASHINGTON "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Saturday December 12, 1903 DEATHS REPORTED DECEMBER 11. James J. O'DONNELL, 602 East Forty-fourth, Dec 8, pneumonia, 1 year Wolfgang RENNER, 3046 Holly, Dec 9, typhoid fever, 28 years Albert BROOKS, Thirty-first and Locust, Dec 7, chronic bronchitis, 85 years Charity WASHINGTON (colored), 1823 Locust, Dec 9, inanition, 87 years Ruth E. SHOEMAKER, Eleventh and Troost, Dec 8, surgical shock, 11 years Daniel B. PROBASCO, 402 Main, Dec 8, cardiac hypertrophy, 50 years Gertrude N. MASSMAN, 1624 Central, Dec 8, peritonitis, 25 years Vianat PAYNE, 1412 Lydia, Dec 8, gastritis, 44 years infant JOHNSON (colored), 719 (rear) Troost, Dec 10, 3 days Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

BROCK, DOURTY, FRANKLIN, PASSLER, SMITH, TALKNER, VINONA, WARD, WARNER "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Friday December 11, 1903 DEATHS REPORTED DECEMBER 10. Wright SMITH, 3124 Park, Dec 8, paralysis, 65 years John T. FRANKLIN, 3534 Woodland, Dec 8, pneumonia, 63 years infant WARNER, 604 Winchester, Dec 8, inanition, 1 month Maud M. PASSLER, 923 Bell, Dec 9, inanition, 1 month Perry BROCK, 1214 West Twenty-fifth, Dec 8, heart disease, 19 years George WARD, 2122 Washington, Dec 6, heart disease, 62 years Leonardo VINONA, 302 Holmes, Dec 9, meningitis, 7 months J. F. DOURTY, Kansas City, Kas., Dec 7, septic meningitis, 26 years Willie TALKNER (colored), 1316 Belvedere, Dec 9, pneumonia, 2 months Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

DOCKERY, DONAHUE, DONIPHAN, FENNELL, FOSTER, HOYT, KELLOG, LEWIS, MARSH, POWELL, WEANER "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Thursday, December 10, 1903 DEATHS REPORTED DECEMBER 9. Stella May DOCKERY, 1211 Campbell, Dec 7, consumption, 22 years Lulu WEANER, 1618 St. Louis avenue, Dec 7, eclampsia, 22 years Olin DONIPHAN, 545 Belmont, Dec 7, non-secretion of urine, 4 months James LEWIS (colored), city hospital, Dec 2, tuberculosis, 45 years Mary MARSH, Missouri avenue and Main Street, Dec 7, dilation of heart, 89 years Benjamin HOYT, 2606 Locust, Dec 7, uremia, 73 years infant KELLOG, 3112 Bell, Dec 7, inanition, 13 days Charlotte POWELL (colored), 1621 East Twenty-second, Dec 6, pneumonia, 45 years Mrs. Julia F. DONAHUE, 1118 Troost, Dec 7, typhoid fever, 38 years Lelia FENNELL (colored), 1119½ East Twelfth, Dec 5, pelvic abscess, 19 years Letitia S. FOSTER, 2801 Troost, Dec 7, chronic bronchitis, 70 years Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

BALEY, BRECKLINE, FASSETT, GARDNER, HUBBART, JACKSON, KURDING, REED, SIMEASKY, ZWEIFEL "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Wednesday, December 9, 1903 DEATHS REPORTED DECEMBER 8. Phil E. SIMEASKY, 706 West Tenth, Dec 6, crushing of foot, 20 years Mrs. Sophia BRECKLINE, St. Joseph's hospital, Dec 7, chronic colaugitis, 63 years Noble HUBBART, 121 Watkins, Dec 6, enteritis, 2 years Robert E. JACKSON, 470 East Lynn, Dec 4, pneumonia, 1 year Alfred K. FASSETT, 1808 Campbell, Dec 5, senility, 82 years Herman KURDING, 407 Delaware, Nov 28, heart disease, 70 years Charles F. BALEY, Dec 5, senile dementia, 80 years Albert GARDNER (colored), city hospital, Dec 2, mitral regurgitation, 48 years Albert W. ZWEIFEL, 1025 East Eighteenth, Dec 7, chronic endocarditis, 31 years Cecil REED, 419 Whittier, Dec 6, pneumonia, 7 years Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

CARR, CARTER, CHANDLER, FITZPATRICK, GARRISON, HUEBEN, HOUSE, JAKOBE, SCHRAMML, STETLER, THORNTON "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Saturday, December 12, 1903 BIRTHS REPORTED DECEMBER 11. Lincoln A. and Etta CARTER, 1415 Walnut, Dec 8, boy Frank and Marie SCHRAMML, 2021 Allen, Dec 8, girl Harry D. and Maud CHANDLER, 1840 Madison, Dec 9, boy Albert and Jaunita JAKOBE, 312 East Sixteenth, Dec 9, girl Joseph S. and Mary R. CARR, 2818 Cypress, Dec 6, boy Henry and Ella N. HUEBEN, 1115 Charlotte, Nov 29, boy P. P. and Kate FITZPATRICK, 610 Myrtle, Dec 5, girl Frank E. and Mildred F. HOUSE, 3443 Holmes, Dec 7, boy D. W. and L. V. THORNTON, 214 North Prospect, Dec 8, girl Robert M. and Sadie F. STETLER, 3800 Woodland, Dec 9, boy Richard F. and Mary E. GARRISON, 2315 Grove, Dec 8, boy (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. [email protected]) ======================================================

ANSBERRY, BUTLER, CLEMENT, HAMACK, O'BEAR, PENCE, SEEGREN, STILLEY "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Friday, December 11, 1903 BIRTHS REPORTED DECEMBER 10. T. and Myrtle ANSBERRY, 1322 Oak, Dec 3, boy Charles and Annie BUTLER, Thirty-first and Park, Dec 1, boy Ed F. and Cora PENCE, Eighteenth and Brighton, Dec 4, girl Henry D. and Jane F. STILLEY, 2510 Kensington, Dec 9, girl Arthur and Pansy B. HAMACK, 524 St. John, Dec 9, boy Jack and Blanche O'BEAR, 3107 Harrison, November 20, boy A. and Hilma E. SEEGREN, 2409 Mercier, Nov 25, boy Nicholas T. and Lena CLEMENT, 1663½ Holly, Nov 25, girl (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. [email protected]) ======================================================

ATTO, BOREN, CUMINS, ELLIOTT, GREGG, GRIGSBY, HALLEY, HERYER, HUNSTON, JOHNSON, LAUGHLIN, PARKER, RICKELLS, ROMAIN, SHANKS, SKINNER "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Thursday, December 10, 1903 BIRTHS REPORTED DECEMBER 9. Dillard and Mollie RICKELLS, 3419 Campbell, Nov 30, boy F. W. and Loren HERYER, 2124 Forest, Nov 19, girl Merrill G. and Harriet L. SKINNER, Kansas City, Mo., Dec 6, girl Edgar and Bettie JOHNSON (colored); 719 Troost, Dec 7, girl James and Marie E. HALLEY, 1228 Campbell, Dec 8, boy W. R. and M. HUNSTON, 2915 Campbell, Nov 28, girl James L. and Ida M. LAUGHLIN, 1430 Madison, Dec 2, boy W. A. and Ellen GRIGSBY, 425 Walnut, Dec 5, boy R. B. and R. ELLIOTT, 100 East Thirtieth, Dec 8, girl Coromo and Risino ATTO, 311 Charlotte, Dec 8, boy George and Kate ROMAIN, 1108 Independence ave., Dec 8, girl William L. and Mary B. GREGG, 1824 East Ninth, Dec 3, girl John H. and Gertrude SHANKS, 3124 Garfield, Dec 7, girl John A. and Louisa BOREN, Thirty-second and Holly, Dec 8, twin girls Norman G. and Daisy CUMINS, 2205 East Fifteenth, Dec 7, girl John and Julia PARKER, 704½ Cypress, Dec 7, girl (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. [email protected]) ======================================================

BUGBEE, CAMPBELL, GEIER, HALL, HICKMAN, SCHAFER, SHOOPEMAN, SWARTZSTEIN, WAGGENER "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Wednesday, December 9, 1903 BIRTHS REPORTED DECEMBER 8. A. B. and Lizzie BUGBEE, 520 East Eleventh, Dec 2, girl Charles C. and Louise A. CAMPBELL, 1611 Troost, Nov 30 (no sex given) J. D. and Lucy V. WAGGENER, 3606 Forest, Dec 7, girl Frank and Mary GEIER, 1601 Franklin, Dec 5, boy Ben and Lottie SWARTZSTEIN, 1811 McGee, Dec 5, girl A. R. and May HALL, 613 East Sixth, Dec 1, girl Carl E. and Delia J. SHOOPEMAN, Dec 5, girl J. W. and Mattie F. HICKMAN, 1522 Cherry, Dec 5, boy Willard M. and Jennie A. THAYER, 2216 Harrison, Dec 5, girl Dan and Jennie SCHAFER, 618 Harrison, Dec 4, girl (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. [email protected]) ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Wednesday, January 1, 1913 DEATHS IN KANSAS CITY. Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia BEAN, 72 years old, wife of Alfred BEAN, who died Monday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William W. MILOR, 2312½ Monitor Place, will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Sacred Heart Church, Madison Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street. Burial will be in Shawnee, Kas. ====================================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 2:18 PM Subject: K. C. Area Deaths I saw your posting on Wyandotte County KS regarding Kansas City Area Deaths. I would appreciate information on Virginia Bean (wife of Alfred) January 1913 and

Have you ever wondered what those old time diseases were? Anyone who has done genealogy research and obtained copies of death certificates has seen comments like Bloody Flux, chilblains, whooping cough, etc. Below is a listing of various old time diseases that may make reading that death certificate a little easier. Old Time Diseases ...Submitted by Libby Preston Ablepsy Blindness Ague Malarial Fever American plague Yellow Fever Anasarca Generalized massive edema Aphonia Laryngitis Aphtha The infant disease thrush Apoplexy Paralysis due to stroke Asphycsia/Asphicsia Cyanotic and lack of oxygen Bad Blood Syphilis Bilious fever Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis Black plague or death Bubonic plague Black fever Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate Black pox Black Small pox Black vomit Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or Yellow Fever Blackwater fever Dark urine associated with high temperature Bladder in the throat Diphtheria Bloody flux Bloody stools Bloody sweat Sweating sickness Bone shave Sciatica Bronze John Yellow Fever Bule Boil, tumor or swelling Cachexy Malnutrition Cacospysy Irregular pulse Caduceus Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy Camp fever Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea Canine madness Rabies, hydrophobia Cerebritis Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning Chilblain Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold Chin cough Whooping cough - Chlorosis Iron deficiency anemia Cholera Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing Cholera morbus Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis Chorea Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing Cold plague Ague which is characterized by chills Congestive chills Malaria Consumption Tuberculosis Congestive chills Malaria with diarrhea Congestive fever Malaria Coryza A cold Costiveness Constipation Cramp colic Appendicitis Crop sickness Overextended stomach Cynanche Throat Disease Debility Lack of movement or staying in bed Decrepitude Feebleness due to old age Deplumation Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss Diary fever A fever that lasts one day Diphtheria Contagious disease of the throat Dock Fever Yellow Fever Dropsy Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease Dry Bellyache Lead poisoning Dysentery Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood Dysorexy Reduced appetite Dysury Difficulty in urination Ecstasy A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason Eel thing Erysipelas Edema Nephrosis; swelling of tissues & Edema of lungs is Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy Elephantiasis A form of leprosy Enteric fever Typhoid Fever Enterocolitis Inflammation of the intestines Enteritis Inflations of the bowels Epitaxis Nose bleed Erysipelas Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular & bulbous lesions Extravasted blood Rupture of a blood vessel Falling sickness Epilepsy Fits Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity Flux An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea French pox Syphilis Gravel Kidney or Gallstones Great pox Syphilis Green fever or sickness Anemia Grippe Influenza like symptoms Grocer's itch Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour Heart sickness Condition caused by loss of salt from body Hectical complaint Recurrent fever Hip gout Osteomylitis Horrors Delirium tremens Hydrocephalus Enlarged head, water on the brain Hydropericardium Heart dropsy Hydrophobia Rabies Hydrothroax Dropsy in chest Hypertrophic Enlargement of organ, like the heart Impetigo Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules Inanition Physical condition resulting from lack of food Jail fever Typhus Jaundice Condition caused by blockage of intestines King's Evil Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands Kruchhusten Whooping cough Lagrippe Influenza Lockjaw Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw if untreated, it is fatal in 8 days Long sickness Tuberculosis Syphilis Lues disease or Venereal disease venera Lumbago Back pain Lung fever Pneumonia Lung sickness Tuberculosis Lying in Time of delivery of infant Malignant sore throat Diphtheria Marasmus Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition Membranous Croup Diphtheria Meningitis Inflammation of brain or spinal cord Metritis Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge Miasma Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air Milk Fever, undulant fever Disease from drinking contaminated milk or brucellosis Milk leg Post partum thrombophlebitis Milk sickness Disease caused by drinking milk from cows which had eaten poisonous weeds Mormal Gangrene Morphew Scurvy blisters on the body Mortification Gangrene of necrotic tissue Myelitis Inflammation of the spine Myocarditis Inflammation of heart muscles Necrosis Mortification of bones or tissue Nephrosis Kidney degeneration Nephritis Inflammation of kidneys Nervous prostration Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities Pemphigus Skin disease of watery blisters Pericarditis Inflammation of heart Peripneumonia Inflammation of lungs Peritonotis Inflammation of abdominal area Petechial Fever Fever characterized by skin spotting Phthiriasis Lice infestation Plague An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate Pleurisy Any pain in the chest area with each breath Podagra Gout Polio Potter's Asthma Fibroid Pthisis (Chronic wasting away or another name for tuberculosis) Pott's Disease Tuberculosis of the Spine Puerperal Exhaustion Death due to childbirth Puerperal Fever Elevated temperature after giving birth Puking Fever Milk Sickness Putrid Fever Diphtheria Quinsy Tonsillitis Remitting Fever Malaria Rheumatism Pain in the joints Rose cold Hay fever Rottany Fever A form of child's fever Rubeola German Measles Sanguineous crust Scab Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever A disease characterized by a red rash Scarlet Rash Roseola Scirrhus Cancerous tumors Scotomy Dizziness, nausea & dimness of sight Scrivener's Palsy Writer's cramp Screws Rheumatism Scrofula Tuberculosis of the neck lymph glands Scrumpox Skin disease or impetigo Scurvy Lack of vitamin C Septicemia Blood poisoning Shakes Delirium tremens (DT's) Shaking Chills or ague Siriasis Inflammation of the brain caused by sun exposure Ship fever Typhus Sloes Milk sickness Smallpox Contagious disease with fever & blisters Softening of the brain Stroke or hemorrhage in the brain resulting in softening of the tissue in that area Sore throat distemper Diphtheria or quinsy Spanish influenza Spotted fever Typhus or meningitis Sprue Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat St. Anthony's fire or Named because the affected areas of the skin are bright red in Erysipelas appearance St. Vitas or Viper's Dance Involuntary rapid jerking movements that don't cease Stomatitis Inflammation of the mouth Stranger's fever Yellow Fever Strangery Rupture Sudor anglicus Sweating sickness (see below) Summer complaint Diarrhea, usually caused by spoiled milk Swamp sickness Malaria, typhoid or encephalitis Sweating sickness Infectious & fatal disease common to United Kingdom in the 15th century Tussis Convulsiva Whooping Cough Typhus (Typhoid Fever) Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache & dizziness Variola Smallpox White swelling Tuberculosis of the bone Winter fever Pneumonia Womb fever Infection of the uterus Worm fit Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea Yellowjacket Yellow fever Old Time Diseases ...Submitted by Libby Preston. Have you ever wondered what those old time diseases were? Anyone who has done genealogy research and obtained copies of death certificates has seen comments like Bloody Flux, chilblains, whooping cough, etc. Below is a listing of various old time diseases that may make reading that death certificate a little easier. Ablepsy Blindness Ague Malarial Fever American plague Yellow Fever Anasarca Generalized massive edema Aphonia Laryngitis Aphtha The infant disease thrush Apoplexy Paralysis due to stroke Asphycsia/Asphicsia Cyanotic and lack of oxygen Bad Blood Syphilis Bilious fever Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis Black plague or death Bubonic plague Black fever Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate Black pox Black Small pox Black vomit Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or Yellow Fever Blackwater fever Dark urine associated with high temperature Bladder in the throat Diphtheria Bloody flux Bloody stools Bloody sweat Sweating sickness Bone shave Sciatica Bronze John Yellow Fever Bule Boil, tumor or swelling Cachexy Malnutrition Cacospysy Irregular pulse Caduceus Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy Camp fever Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea Canine madness Rabies, hydrophobia Cerebritis Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning Chilblain Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold Chin cough Whooping cough - Chlorosis Iron deficiency anemia Cholera Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing Cholera morbus Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis Chorea Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing Cold plague Ague which is characterized by chills Congestive chills Malaria Consumption Tuberculosis Congestive chills Malaria with diarrhea Congestive fever Malaria Coryza A cold Costiveness Constipation Cramp colic Appendicitis Crop sickness Overextended stomach Cynanche Throat Disease Debility Lack of movement or staying in bed Decrepitude Feebleness due to old age Deplumation Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss Diary fever A fever that lasts one day Diphtheria Contagious disease of the throat Dock Fever Yellow Fever Dropsy Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease Dry Bellyache Lead poisoning Dysentery Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood Dysorexy Reduced appetite Dysury Difficulty in urination Ecstasy A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason Eel thing Erysipelas Edema Nephrosis; swelling of tissues & Edema of lungs is Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy Elephantiasis A form of leprosy Enteric fever Typhoid Fever Enterocolitis Inflammation of the intestines Enteritis Inflations of the bowels Epitaxis Nose bleed Erysipelas Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular & bulbous lesions Extravasted blood Rupture of a blood vessel Falling sickness Epilepsy Fits Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity Flux An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea French pox Syphilis Gravel Kidney or Gallstones Great pox Syphilis Green fever or sickness Anemia Grippe Influenza like symptoms Grocer's itch Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour Heart sickness Condition caused by loss of salt from body Hectical complaint Recurrent fever Hip gout Osteomylitis Horrors Delirium tremens Hydrocephalus Enlarged head, water on the brain Hydropericardium Heart dropsy Hydrophobia Rabies Hydrothroax Dropsy in chest Hypertrophic Enlargement of organ, like the heart Impetigo Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules Inanition Physical condition resulting from lack of food Jail fever Typhus Jaundice Condition caused by blockage of intestines King's Evil Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands Kruchhusten Whooping cough Lagrippe Influenza Lockjaw Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw if untreated, it is fatal in 8 days Long sickness Tuberculosis Syphilis Lues disease or Venereal disease venera Lumbago Back pain Lung fever Pneumonia Lung sickness Tuberculosis Lying in Time of delivery of infant Malignant sore throat Diphtheria Marasmus Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition Membranous Croup Diphtheria Meningitis Inflammation of brain or spinal cord Metritis Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge Miasma Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air Milk Fever, undulant fever Disease from drinking contaminated milk or brucellosis Milk leg Post partum thrombophlebitis Milk sickness Disease caused by drinking milk from cows which had eaten poisonous weeds Mormal Gangrene Morphew Scurvy blisters on the body Mortification Gangrene of necrotic tissue Myelitis Inflammation of the spine Myocarditis Inflammation of heart muscles Necrosis Mortification of bones or tissue Nephrosis Kidney degeneration Nephritis Inflammation of kidneys Nervous prostration Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities Pemphigus Skin disease of watery blisters Pericarditis Inflammation of heart Peripneumonia Inflammation of lungs Peritonotis Inflammation of abdominal area Petechial Fever Fever characterized by skin spotting Phthiriasis Lice infestation Plague An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate Pleurisy Any pain in the chest area with each breath Podagra Gout Polio Potter's Asthma Fibroid Pthisis (Chronic wasting away or another name for tuberculosis) Pott's Disease Tuberculosis of the Spine Puerperal Exhaustion Death due to childbirth Puerperal Fever Elevated temperature after giving birth Puking Fever Milk Sickness Putrid Fever Diphtheria Quinsy Tonsillitis Remitting Fever Malaria Rheumatism Pain in the joints Rose cold Hay fever Rottany Fever A form of child's fever Rubeola German Measles Sanguineous crust Scab Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever A disease characterized by a red rash Scarlet Rash Roseola Scirrhus Cancerous tumors Scotomy Dizziness, nausea & dimness of sight Scrivener's Palsy Writer's cramp Screws Rheumatism Scrofula Tuberculosis of the neck lymph glands Scrumpox Skin disease or impetigo Scurvy Lack of vitamin C Septicemia Blood poisoning Shakes Delirium tremens (DT's) Shaking Chills or ague Siriasis Inflammation of the brain caused by sun exposure Ship fever Typhus Sloes Milk sickness Smallpox Contagious disease with fever & blisters Softening of the brain Stroke or hemorrhage in the brain resulting in softening of the tissue in that area Sore throat distemper Diphtheria or quinsy Spanish influenza Spotted fever Typhus or meningitis Sprue Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat St. Anthony's fire or Named because the affected areas of the skin are bright red in Erysipelas appearance St. Vitas or Viper's Dance Involuntary rapid jerking movements that don't cease Stomatitis Inflammation of the mouth Stranger's fever Yellow Fever Strangery Rupture Sudor anglicus Sweating sickness (see below) Summer complaint Diarrhea, usually caused by spoiled milk Swamp sickness Malaria, typhoid or encephalitis Sweating sickness Infectious & fatal disease common to United Kingdom in the 15th century Tussis Convulsiva Whooping Cough Typhus (Typhoid Fever) Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache & dizziness Variola Smallpox White swelling Tuberculosis of the bone Winter fever Pneumonia Womb fever Infection of the uterus Worm fit Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea Yellowjacket Yellow fever posted by: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline DeBiasi" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: [WKY] Old Time Diseases

Epidemics in U.S. - 1657 - 1918 If you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors seemed to disappear during a certain period in history, it may have been due to an epidemic. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people and therefore the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be attributed to people dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below 1657 Boston: Measles 1687 Boston: Measles 1690 New York: Yellow Fever 1713 Boston: Measles 1729 Boston: Measles 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox 1739-40 Boston: Measles 1747 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina: Measles 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles 1761-61 North America & West Indies: Influenza 1772 North America: Measles 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic (unknown) 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza 1781-82 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) 1788 Philadelphia & New York: Measles 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" 1793 Virginia: Influenza (kills 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks) 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow fever (one of worst) 1783 Delaware (Dover): "extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown): many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow fever 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1803 New York: Yellow Fever 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza 1848-49 North America: Cholera 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever 1850-51 North America: Influenza 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans: 8,000 die in summer) 1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, & Washington D.C.: a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid 1886: Jacksonville, Fl: Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in World War I more died from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps --with 80 percent death rate in some camps ---------------- Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: 1833 Columbus, Ohio 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851 Coles Co., Illinois 1851 The Great Plains 1851 Missouri Other epidemics in the US - mostly in "big" east coast cities: 1813: "spotted fever" which we know as cerebral spinal meningitis--6,000 died. 1813 to ?: tuberculosis also called "consumption" was on the rise. 1842-3: erysipelas [strep infection of skin and mucous membranes

I am looking for the children of Edith Murrell, the daughter of Ed Murrell. She had siblings, Elmer, Floyd and Christine. Elmer, and Floyd are both dead. Aunt Wilma Murrell Baker, my aunt thinks that Christine probably is too. I know Edith married and moved away. I heard that she moved away after she got married to St Louis or IL she may have had one child and later twins. She died not too long after that. I think her sons may still be alive but now one seems to know who she married...... do you or any one know. I sure would like to find them that is one line that I don't have any descendents for. She was born about 1916. If anyone has any information on Edith or her descendents I would really like to hear from you. Any clues are appreciated. Sincerely, Patricia Murrell Mata [email protected]

Well wouldn't that story "get your goat"? Thanks Jimmye ----- Original Message ----- From: John O'Brien To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: [KansasCity] Mr. R. J. TURNER - Independence, MO - November 1897 "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, November 23, 1897 TURNER HAS A THRILLING EXPERIENCE WITH WILLIAM GOAT. R. J. TURNER, the coal and ice man, has been troubled by small boys playing in his barn and he has fixed on a new plan for keeping them out. He bought a lively billy-goat yesterday morning and turned him loose in his barn. About noon he decided that he would go down and see how many youngsters "billy" had eaten up. He stepped inside and, calling familiarly to the goat, closed the door. Billy debated for a moment whether he should acknowledge the acquaintance, and then decided that he had never met Mr. TURNER and did not desire that pleasure. He further decided to punish Mr. TURNER's impertinence in addressing him. Mr. TURNER tried to explain, but billy would not listen. What happened next no one but the goat knows, for Mr. TURNER says that all he recollects is that billy came at him and the rest is a blank. He is determined, however, that he will pursue the acquaintance, and is very much pleased with his purchase. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ====================================================== ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== USGENWEB SEARCH ARCHIVES http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hi John Welcome back..Sure missed your informative and helpful emails. Have a great day! Jimmye [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: John O'Brien To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:08 PM Subject: [KansasCity] Kansas City area births - September 6, 1902 through September 19, 1902 CASEY, PILONO, PONOHER, TAYLOR, TORBET, QUINN, WORNALL, WRIGHT "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, September 21, 1902 BIRTHS. Robert and Mary TAYLOR, 1604 Holmes, Sept 19, girl Samuel B. and June I. TORBET, 3707 Park, Sept 19, girl Edward J. and Julia CASEY, 3212 Holmes, Sept 9, boy Antonio and V. PILONO, 312 Cherry, Sept 19, girl Albert and Ester PONOHER, 806 Independence Ave., Sept 6, boy Rev. G. R. and Susan B. WRIGHT, 809 Elmwood, Sept 16, boy Charles H. and Jennie WORNALL, 105 West Thirty-ninth, Sept 18, boy D. and B. QUINN, 1020 Lydia, Sept 11, girl (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. [email protected]) ====================================================== ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== [email protected] List Administrator Maureen Patt, ListMom [email protected] ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

BENSON, MILLER, PORTER, REARDON "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, September 21, 1902 DEATHS. Frank MILLER, 110 West Fifth, Sept 16, consumption, 30 years C. M. PORTER, 1405 McGee, Sept 18, valvular insufficiency, 69 years Mrs. Matilda BENSON, 228 Parallel, Sept 19, peritonitis, 26 years infant REARDON, 2526 Michigan, Sept 19, inanition, 2 days Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================

CASEY, PILONO, PONOHER, TAYLOR, TORBET, QUINN, WORNALL, WRIGHT "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, September 21, 1902 BIRTHS. Robert and Mary TAYLOR, 1604 Holmes, Sept 19, girl Samuel B. and June I. TORBET, 3707 Park, Sept 19, girl Edward J. and Julia CASEY, 3212 Holmes, Sept 9, boy Antonio and V. PILONO, 312 Cherry, Sept 19, girl Albert and Ester PONOHER, 806 Independence Ave., Sept 6, boy Rev. G. R. and Susan B. WRIGHT, 809 Elmwood, Sept 16, boy Charles H. and Jennie WORNALL, 105 West Thirty-ninth, Sept 18, boy D. and B. QUINN, 1020 Lydia, Sept 11, girl (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. [email protected]) ======================================================

Hallelujah! John Obrien is back I hear Hooray Hooray! Thanks Jimmye Miami,Ok [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Joyce Woods To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [KansasCity] GLORecords Update You must have said the magic words, because we got John O'Brien back online! [email protected] wrote: Thank you for the information- now if we could get John OBrien back on line it would make my day. ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== [email protected] List Administrator Maureen Patt, ListMom [email protected] ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== USGENWEB SEARCH ARCHIVES http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx