Donna, In "A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio", published in 1877, there is a paragraph mentioning a typhoid epidemic which hit Lancaster, Ohio in the fall of 1823. The author, Hervey Scott says, "Its ravages are believed not to have been exceeded on the continent at any age, or by any visitation of epidemic disease, not even excepting the cholera. " Apparently the town was decimated, with estimates of one death out of every ten citizens. Could this have been in Pennsylvania in 1820-21 and arrived in Ohio by 1823? Diane in AZ