There were a few GEORGE family members who seem to have died during an epidemic also, but earlier family historians thought it was typhoid fever. Perhaps it was cholera. Thirty-five year old Joshua George died of typhoid fever about 1835-6, and Reuben Sr, Esther, and their 10 year old son Isaac are believed to have died during an epidemic in the summer of 1837, all in Butler County. Reuben Sr. made his mark to approve his will dated June 10 1837, witnessed by James Jenkins, Evan Jenkins, and Wm. C. Jenkins. The will was filed September 1837, will record number 2, page 276. Samuel Hardin "Squire" DeArmond husband of Sarah Youmans DeArmond, bought Reuben Sr.'s farm and became the guardian of Reuben and second wife Esther's surviving 6 year old daughter Mary, who later married John Randolph DeArmond (1828-1882), son of James and Maria Youmans DeArmond. Mary George DeArmond not only survived the causes of her parents', brother's, and half brother's deaths, but she lived to within 3 months of her 101st birrhday. Interesting how various Butler Co families intermarried back then. Nancy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~vlwest/george/