To Bob Niehaus - thanks so much for the information! I have never studied this history, and find it so informative and so very sad. If only they had known about the contagious aspect of the disease at that time! My gr gr grandmother Cynthia McKee Osborn died 1850-1851...so perhaps it was not cholera which caused her death. Thanks again. Barbara Head Ward ____________________________________________________________ Start Email Marketing - fast, affordable, and measurable. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3l4wZvst8EsaEagLveijKSf5k5Q7hlwUYtvMSUh7peavaqmi/

There were a number of cholera epidemics in Cincinnati and folks also died from Cholera at times other than during epidemics. My family lost a half dozen ancestors to Cholera in Cincinnati over the years. The last death was my grandfather's sister and her newborn infant. They both died of Cholera in Cincinnati just days apart in the fall of 1895. Phyllis