At 11:39 AM 11/22/97 -0500, Charlie Weaver wrote: [snip] >Thanks, Louise, for the response. I had noticed an unusual amount >of typhoid deaths in some of mountain counties, but since my DOHERTYs >died after the 1860 census hadn't thought to check there. BTW, my >mother/father met in the typhoid ward at Lees-McCrae College in >1933. I guess the epidemic in the pre-census months of 1859-60 >could have carried over into spring 1861, but that's generally >flu epidemic time. Oh, just idle speculation... Thanks again. There was an epidemic of some sort in early 1860 in Anderson County, SC. The census taker(s) went back and crossed off several names of those who'd died. (This was entirely or mostly so in the Dark Corner area of that county.) I haven't heard of anything specifically identified as a flu epidemic before 1910. Elizabeth Whitaker elwhitaker@shtc.net computer columnist, THE BETHUNE PAW PRINT http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~elwhitaker (new version) ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line