--part1_5a9bd4d0.249d3052_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_5a9bd4d0.249d3052_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <PRICE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yh05.mx.aol.com (rly-yh05.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.37]) by air-yh03.mail.aol.com (v59.51) with SMTP; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:33:41 -0400 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-yh05.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:33:28 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA21372; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003801beba79$21b3e740$65e1e4ce@twilkerson> From: "Tamara and Allen Wilkerson" <hoosiers@digital.net> Old-To: "Tamara and Allen Wilkerson" <hoosiers@digital.net>, "Beau Bowen" <beau@netgsi.com>, "Freeman List" <Freeman-L@rootsweb.com>, "Price List" <Price-L@rootsweb.com>, "Hunt List" <Hunt-L@rootsweb.com>, "D.Y. McIntyre" <bubba@strato.net>, "Brooks List" <Brooks-L@rootsweb.com>, "Boren List" <Boren-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Dates of Epidemics Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:28:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Resent-Message-ID: <todKwD.A.ILF.DP9a3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: PRICE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: PRICE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <PRICE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1568 X-Loop: PRICE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: PRICE-L-request@rootsweb.com QUOTE: > > I received this on another list - very informative! But always in the > case of someone else's research - you need to check out these dates to > your own satisfaction. > > 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 their 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 > 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza > 1738 South Carolina Smallpox > 1739-40 Boston Measles > 1747 CT,NY,PA,SC Measles > 1759 N. America [areas inhabited by white people] Measles > 1761 North America and West Indies Influenza > 1772 North America Measles > 1775 N. America [especially hard in NE] epidemic Unknown > 1775-6 Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] Influenza > 1783 Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] Bilious Disorder > 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles > 1793 Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and Influenza > 1793 VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] Influenza > 1793 Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] Yellow Fever > 1793 Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] Unknown > 1793 Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] Unknown > 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever > 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever > 1798 Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] Yellow Fever > 1803 New York Yellow Fever > 1820-3 Nationwide [starts Schuylkill River and spreads] "Fever" > 1831-2 Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic Cholera > 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera > 1837 Philadelphia Typhus > 1841 Nationwide [especially severe in the south] Yellow Fever > 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever > 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza > 1848-9 North America Cholera > 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever > 1850-1 North America Influenza > 1852 Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] Yellow Fever > 1855 Nationwide [many parts] Yellow Fever > 1857-9 Worldwide [one of the greatest epidemics] Influenza > 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox > 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans} {Smallpox > Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC} Cholera and a series of recurring > epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever > 1873-5 North America and Europe Influenza > 1878 New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever > 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid > 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever > 1918 (high point year) Influenza Worldwide more people were > hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic 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, The Great Plains, and Missouri ==== PRICE Mailing List ==== Need list assistance? Please contact: crb@ponyexpress.net List Adm for PRICE-L and PRICE-D Now with over 540 subscribers! --part1_5a9bd4d0.249d3052_boundary--