>This must have been a very sad time in Taney County. The countryside had >just recovered from the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919, which my >grandmother remembers as several months of not being allowed to go anywhere, >and news of new deaths in the area every day. > >Ingrid > > Ingrid, Was anything ever written about an epidemic that occurred 1909-1910 in Taney County and probably in other areas?? It was my understanding that some of the Logan family died during a Measles Epidemic. I am told that Alunda Alice Logan Clark Laughlin and husband John Laughlin died from measles, as well as her mother Charity Elizabeth Wiggins Logan. All died 1909-1910. Alunda's children were sent to live with others. Benjamin Crenshaw Clark is found with his Aunt Etta Logan Haggard and her husband Denny Haggard and their children in Stone County in 1910. Alumus Richard "Dick" and Charity Matilda "Mae" Laughlin lived with neighbors. Dick changed his surname to the name of the people who fostered him. (I am not at home nor do I have access to the info right now, but I think their name was Scott.) I have not had a chance to look for them in any of the area 1910 Censuses yet. Have you heard of anything about an epidemic of measles that killed then?? Barbara