There is a fascinating page on the fever that took out much of the population of Eaton, OH in Preble Co. in Beers' History of Preble Co. It happened before 1850 I think and it was due to contaminated water but then death is death and a lot of people died. But there we have a record of some sort of who helped and who died. That is a record of who lived in that time and space, just what we are looking to find. Linda in Greene Co. OH