Bill, Please send me the yellow fever file. I'm looking for information on any Falls, Omar or Davis surnames from Fulton County. Susan Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Utterback <billco@ARN.NET> To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com <KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 5:39 PM Subject: [KYJP-L] Special File: Fulton County Deaths In 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic >My friends - > >Today's data post is something different from anything that I have offered >previously. > >In the August to November time frame in 1878, Fulton County, and the town >of Hickman in particular, suffered a terrible outbreak of Yellow Fever, >which resulted in the deaths of over 100 individuals in that several month >period. On November 8, 1878, the Hickman Courier published a story about >the epidemic and gave the names and dates of death for these inidivduals, >including African American deaths(although there was no death date given >for those deaths). The fine folks at The Kentucky Explorer magazine >recently published this article, and I have extracted the names of those >who died from this disease, along with the dates of their deaths, and have >it available in a file in plain text format. > >Listed below are the surnames that are listed in the article. In a number >of cases, it is tragic to watch, day after day, as whole families are >literally wiped out by a disease that is, today, virtually unknown to us in >this country. Several of the fine physicians of the area also succumbed to >the disease over this several month period. If your families were in this >area in 1878 and some of them disappeared, this could be the cause. > >If you see a surname below in which you have an interest, and would like a >copy of the file, let me know that you would like the *Yellow Fever File*. >I will send it as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message, unless you >specify that you need it as >*straight e-mail*. As always, your help in not resending this entire >message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Given the >number of names in this collection, I can't extract individual names from >the list, so you will receive the complete file, from which you can cull >the names you need. > > -B >============================================================ > Fulton County: Deaths in 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic - Surnames > >Hendricks >Mangel >Witting >Young >Davis > >Heatherly >Hancock >Buckner >Gibbs >Bleeson > >Sagrist >Coffee >Harnes >Reasoner >Wooten > >Packett >Simones >Funk >Gardner >Kingman > >Dunevant >McCain >Meyer >Holeman >Bright > >Miller >Ashworth >Millet >Fortune >Sohm > >Hertwick >Young >Blanton >Samse >Amber >Barnes > >Nelson >Smith >Bayliss >Halyburton >Karcher >Parham > >Dozier >Holt >Reid >Brevard >Stoner >Catlett > >Shoemaker >Whal >Eckert >Balzer >Monroe > >Prather >Bearger >Buncho >Thomas >Frenz >Neal > >Jones >Whitting >Muse >Scharfe >Lacy >Amberg >O'Neal > >Metheny >McConnell >Luttrell > >Faris >Person >Bondurant >Stephens >Lane >Cook >Roulac > >Buck >Glaser >Sames >Cobbs >Pollard >Sherron >Corbett > >Overton >Barry >Flaser >Kesterson >Stoner >Wilburn >Greenup(from Frankfort) > >Black >Anderson >Cole >Alexander >Vandever >Overton > >African Americans: >Pullum >Bennet >Yancy >Upshaw >Adkins > >Dodds >Bennett >Redick >Watson >Matison > >Woodson >Devine >Landrum >Titus >Maddox >Freeman >Cross > > ~End of File~ > >______________________________