Hi John, I'd appreciate learning about this info when you find it. Please post it on the website. I'm the original requestor for this info. I sure hope you find it. Pat Stano-Carpenter Marlboro, MA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillips, John" <John.Phillips@nuveen.com> To: <MORAY-CGA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [MORAY-CGA] Epidemics & Weather Catastrophes > Barbee, > > Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. > > I had a copy of a time line of happenings in Ray Co., MO that incl. some > of the epidemics through the ages of which there were records. I'll see > if I can track that down. > > The only people that I found in Marion Co., Oregon that might be > relatives was the Hiram Taylors. Was your Julia related to that family? > I checked what info I had on Phillips in Oregon but didn't find anyone > that early. I thought your family was the earliest. > > My family line is > John Griffin Phillips > s/o Jack Wesley Phillips > s/o Armour Wesley Phillips > s/o Joel Johnson Phillips > s/o Squire Boone Phillips > s/o George Phillips > s/o John Phillips > s/o James Phillips ( I wrote up a white paper on the John Phillips > family that gave some strong indication that James and Mary Phillips of > Virginia were the parents of John. I believe I sent that to you some > time back. I keep thinking I ought to do the DNA testing as I have a > straight male line documented back to John and Amy - I just haven't done > it yet.) > > Thanks > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barbee Hodgkins [mailto:bhodgkin@oregonvos.net] > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:59 PM > To: MORAY-CGA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MORAY-CGA] Epidemics & Weather Catastrophes > > Hi John > Appreciated the note about the cholera epidemic in Ray County MO. John > Phillips and wife Julia Taylor came to Oregon in 1852. There is a > family story that they settled in the foothills of Marion County Oregon > away from the river because they feared disease. The other family > story that I haven't tracked down is that: > "The first night in Oregon they stayed with relatives in the Willamette > Valley and shot a deer from the front porch the next morning" Now who > were the relatives that came earlier than 1852? > Also wonder what John Mason, Mary G Paul's first husband died of only > four years after the marriage? > Barbee dau of > John Sherman and Faith Wagner dau of > Peter Edmund Wagner and Elizabeth Ann Phillips dau of > Riley Polk Phillips and Elizabeth Abigail Rice son of > John Phillips and Julia Ann Taylor son of > Jesse Phillips and Mary (Polly) Reatherford son of > John Phillips and Amai (unknown) son of > a possible James Phillips and Mary > > On Nov 04, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Phillips, John wrote: > > > Pat, > > > > There supposedly was a cholera epidemic in Ray Co., Mo in 1854. Both > > George Phillips, his wife Mary G. Paul Phillips died 2 days apart in > > June of 1854. There were also non-fatal attacks of cholera on a few > of > > the children but they seemed to have recovered. I have the doctor's > > bills for the visits that were part of George's probate records. > > > > Sorry nothing more specific. > > > > John Phillips > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeff & Pat Carpenter Stano [mailto:carstano@comcast.net] > > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:18 AM > > To: MORAY-CGA-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [MORAY-CGA] Epidemics & Weather Catastrophes > > > > I have two questions. Would anyone know if there were any major > > epidemics > > and/or weather catastrophes that occurred in Ray County or MO in > > general > > during the years 1843 thru 1901? I am especially interested in Ray > > County > > for the year 1859. And, are there mortality schedules available for > > Ray > > County? Again, especially for the year 1859. > > > > Pat Stano-Carpenter > > > > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > > The Ray County Historical Society maintains the Ray County Museum. > > > > > > > > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > > Ray County Historical Society, PO Box 2, Richmond, MO 64085 > > > > > bhodgkin@oregonvos.net > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > Ray County Missouri was created in 1821 from Howard County. > > > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > Ray County Genealogical Assn. > 901 W. Royle > Richmond, MO 60485 >