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~