This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1721.2.1 Message Board Post: No, I've not been able to find out any more about the TB outbreak in those counties. Most people I talk to just say that TB was pretty rampant in those days and like a lot of diseases, nobody talked about what they died from. It's just now, as we're doing reseach about these people that we're finding this out. I have tried to find out what happened to the records from the St Louis sanitarium (which is now the courthouse) which is where my great-grandmother was treated and then later died, but so far, no luck.