Does the Genealogy Society for McMinn County have books listing all the cemeteries there and all the tombstones in each cemetery? -----Original Message----- From: sharonmc2002@aol.com [mailto:sharonmc2002@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 5:00 PM To: TNMCMINN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MCMINN] 1851 Deaths in McMinn County In the years 1850-1851 All of North America had a severe Influenza outbreak 1851 had a bad bout of Cholera and 1852 had Nation wide epidemic of Yellow Fever. And there were also localized outbreaks of typhoid too during this time period. Sharon McCormack Joyce G. Reece, Kaye Buckner Presley, Sharon McCormack American Local History Network Web site co-hosts > A number of Matlock, Purcell and McPhail family members died during 1851 > and many of them are buried at the Matlock Cemetery near Niota in McMinn > County. Three or four members of one family died within a few weeks or > months of each other. I am wondering if there was some catastrophic > illness (cholera?) that swept through the county in 1851. > > Have other McMinn County researchers noted an unusual number of deaths > in their families which occurred in mid to late 1851? > > Doug Purcell > Sharon McCormack Joyce G. Reece, Kaye Buckner Presley, Sharon McCormack American Local History Network Web site co-hosts ==== TNMCMINN Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the McMinn Co., TN list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to TNMCMINN-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List to TNMCMINN-d-request@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237