The second cholera pandemic started in ca. 1832. See http://earlyamerica.com/review/2000_fall/1832_cholera.html Karen Sullivan Visit Alden Kindred of America at http://www.alden.org/ --------------------------------- Once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow.-- G.M.Trevelyan -----Original Message----- From: Jim Bullock [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MABRISTO] Seekonk Epidemic? Check the death dates of the children of Hezekiah K. & Deborah (LAKE) MEDBURY. Four of the five died within four days of each other. Was there an epidemic in 1833 in Seekonk or were the deaths confined to this one family? 1 F Caroline Frances MEDBURY Birth: 11 Mar 1823 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Death: 26 Feb 1833 Seekonk, Bristol, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ 2 F Sarah Humphrey MEDBURY Birth: 2 Jan 1825 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Death: 13 Apr 1852 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Spouse: Caleb R. BARNEY (m aft 9 Dec 1842) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ 3 F Julia Amanda MEDBURY Birth: 16 Oct 1827 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Death: 1 Mar 1833 Seekonk, Bristol, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ 4 F Ann Elizabeth MEDBURY Birth: 4 Jan 1830 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Death: 26 Feb 1833 Seekonk, Bristol, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ 5 F Louisa MEDBURY Birth: 22 Sep 1831 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Death: 27 Feb 1833 Seekonk, Bristol, MA Jim Bullock Littleton, CO ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237