Nancy--there's a very good list of the major US epidemics at: http://www.usgenweb.com/researchers/epidemics.html Give a look....worth your time since the USGENWEB folks have done lots of research projects--this is just one. [email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > TNMCNAIR-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 298 > > > Subject: [TNMCNAIR] Re: TNMCNAIR-D Digest V00 #295 > Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:41:59 -0500 > From: Nancy and Henry Blackwell <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > I was off the list for a while. Did anyone ever discover if there was a smallpox > or yellow fever epidemic in the county in the mid-1850's? Nancy Blackwell