I was wondering if there might have been some kind of epidemic in Berne Township around 1860-61. Two members of the Phillips family, ages 8 and 13, died within a month of each other in Oct/Nov 1861. They are buried in the Old Catholic/Phillips cemetery. Another family named McGaughey lost four children, ages 2-15, within a week of each other. They are buried in the same cemetery. There are a few other folks in this cemetery who died around this time. Would the newspapers have reported something like this? Sheila Rider North Carolina -----Original Message----- From: Amy Johnson Crow <ajcrow@ix.netcom.com> To: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com <OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com>; Carol Swinehart <cshart@greenapple.com> Date: Sunday, February 22, 1998 8:01 PM Subject: Re: Epidemics throughout history >Here's two Fairfield Co epidemics listed in Graham's 1883 "History of >Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio" -- > >Lancaster, 1823 -- typhoid (described as affecting everyone in the village >of Lancaster except for Frederick Foster and Christian Weaver). > >East Lancaster, August 1850 -- Cholera. Originated in Columbus and spread >by a traveller from there. Thrity people died in two weeks. > >I didn't see any mention of Perry Co epidemics, but will post them if I do. >Hope this helps :-) > >Amy > >---------- >> From: Carol Swinehart <cshart@greenapple.com> >> To: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Epidemics throughout history >> Date: Sunday, February 22, 1998 6:08 PM >> >> Originally from: >> >> >Donna Ristenbatt >> >> >der@redrose.net >> >> >http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy >> >> >To: Dutch-Colonies@rootsweb.com >> >> >Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:25:04 -500 >> >> >Subject: Possible Reasons for Disappearing Ancestors >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> "In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors >disappeared >> >> >> during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have >always >> >> >> had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the >> >> >> genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing >from >> >> >> records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from >the >> >> >> affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are >listed >> >> >> below. >> >> >> >> >> >> 1657 Boston: Measles >> >> >> 1687 Boston: Measles >> >> >> 1690 New York: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1713 Boston: Measles >> >> >> 1729 Boston: Measles >> >> >> 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza >> >> >> 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox >> >> >> 1739-40 Boston: Measles >> >> >> 1747 Conn, NY, PA & SC: Measles >> >> >> 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles >> >> >> 1761 North America & West Indies: Influenza >> >> >> 1772 North America: Measles >> >> >> 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): >Epidem(unknown) >> >> >> 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) >> >> >> 1788 Philadelphia & NY: Measles >> >> >> 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" >> >> >> 1793 Virginia: Influenza (killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 >weeks) >> >> >> 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) >> >> >> 1783* Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder >> >> >> 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) many unexplained >deaths >> >> >> 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) >> >> >> 1803 New York: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & >spreads) >> >> >> 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) >> >> >> 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera >> >> >> 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus >> >> >> 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) >> >> >> 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza >> >> >> 1848-49 North America: Cholera >> >> >> 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1850-51 North America: Influenza >> >> >> 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans 8,000 die in summer) >> >> >> 1855 Nationwide (many parts) Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) >> >> >> 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox >> >> >> 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis & >> >> >> Washington DC: A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, >> >> >> Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza >> >> >> 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) >> >> >> 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid >> >> >> 1886 Jacksonville, FL: Yellow Fever >> >> >> 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people >> >> >> hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US >Army >> >> >> training camps became death camps - with 80% death rate in >some camps. >> >> >> >> >> >> Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: >> >> >> 1833 Columbus, OH >> >> >> 1834 New York City >> >> >> 1849 New York >> >> >> 1851 Coles Co, IL >> >> >> 1851 The Great Plains >> >> >> 1851 Missouri >> >> >> Thought you all would be interested in this information. If you know of >epidemics that occurred in Fairfield County - let us know. Perhaps six >children in your ancestors family died on yellow fever within a few weeks >or in the same year. I am sure the 1833 Chlorea epidemic in Columbus must >have effected the people in Fairfield County. >> >> >> Many of the canal workers died on Malaria here in Fairfield County. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com >> >> <smaller>List Adminstrator of Fairfield County, Ohio Mailing >> List</smaller>: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com >> >> <smaller>Stop by the Fairfield County,Ohio Webpage</smaller>: >> http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org >> >> <smaller>or Fairfield County, Ohio GenWeb page: >> </smaller>http://www.greenapple.com/~ksmith/que.html >> >> My FCO Fam: Swinehart, Homrighouser, Betz, Foltz, Quickel, Anspach, >> Spohn >> >> <smaller>Library & Church Archive links</smaller>: >> http://www.greenapple.com/~cshart/liblinks >>