This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Killey; LeFevre/Fever; Conachan; Lewis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACI/1938.1.2.1 Message Board Post: An earlier posting refers to "black dypheria" (diptheria?) but i haven't browsed the medical sites yet to see what it is. The person who posted that term though,said it was highly contagious and was spreading in the city at that time. So I wonder if that's the illness I've been looking for, in relation to my g-g-uncle. Whatever he had, he was so contagious he could not be sent to his home state to his family for burial.