Thought this might be of interest Dave icq#4202467 -----Original Message----- From: Alisa <AlisaO@ix.netcom.com> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 12:48 AM Subject: [TNGEN-L] Helpful info >>Subject: Helpful info >> >>Hello everyone! >> >>This was on a list I belong to and thought it might be helpful >>to some one....in some cases it covers the entire US so it would >>apply to TN as well. >> >>Happy weekend to all! >> >> >> 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): Epidemic (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 >> >Coming soon: www.trudean.com is under construction. Check back for >fashion jewelry, gifts, men's gifts, collectibles, rings, watches, ink >pens...a little bit for everyone! FREE Gift wrapping and mailing service. > > >==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== >Be sure to send your updates to this mailing list to be >included on the "What's New" page. > >