In a message dated 08/02/2001 2:06:14 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Does anyone know when particular epidemics or other illnesses might have > gone through Benton County? I had several Benton County ancestors die > unexpectedly in the late 1840s and again in the late 1860s. I'm just > wondering what they might have had. > > Beverly Park Peavler Mentioned in History of Benton Co: "A cholera epidemic swept through Missouri in 1849, brought up river from St Louis, where hundreds died...contracted by a steamboat crew who spread it about town [Warsaw] during a stop here. Two died in Warsaw, one being James Blakey... Typhoid often hit families when a water source was contaminated, and "consumption" (TB) would also single out families... Homer Ficken, Benton GenWeb