Hello Louise Overton: I, for one, want to thank you for posting such good info. In your last Poor House posting you mentioned a typhoid epidemic in the 1860-61 period. Could you possibly give me a source for info on this epidemic? I think I may have great-great-grsndparents who could have been victims. My William Anderson DORITY (v.), son of James DOHERTY who got a grant in 1790 on Buck (Water or Quarter) Creek ne of Hillsborough, and his wife, Elmira ALLEN DORITY, died in 1861, Elmira on 26 April and William on 1 May. At the time of the 1860 census they were in the Rogers Store area of Wake Co., but I don't know if they were still there when they died. I have never been able to determine Elmira's parents/origins. I also need to try to confirm that James DOHERTY's brother was Anthony DOHERTY Jr. who married Mary McCOOL and fled to Canada with her family in 1794, and, that James & Anthony Jr were the sons of Anthony Sr. who was exempted from Orange Co taxes in 1784 because of blindness. Thanks. Charlie Weaver, Winston-Salem ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm