I don't know if this was the list of epidemics referred to on Dec. 8. This list I received from a cousin in another family line. Perhaps it will be of help. Joan Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County "Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol.. 20, No 1, Fail 199&' 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 trace 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 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738 SouthCarolina Smallpox 1739-40 Boston Measles 1747 CT, NY, PA, SC Measles 1759 N. Amber (areas inhabited by white people) Measles 1761 N. Amber and West Indies Influenza 1772 N. America Measles 1775 N. Amber. (hard in New England) Unknown Illness 1775-6 Worldwide (one of the worst) Influenza 1783 Dover, DE (extremely fatal) Bilious Disorder 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles 1893 Vermont Influenza 1893 Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 wk.) Influenza 1793 Philadelphia (very bad) Yellow Fever 1793 Middletown & Harrisburg PA Unknown Illness 1794 Philadelphia Yellow Fever 1796-7 Philadelphia Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia (very bad) Yellow Fever 1803 New York Yellow Fever 1820-3 Nationwide "River Fever" 1831-2 Nationwide (brought by English emigrants) Asiatic Cholera 1832 NY City Cholera 1837 Philadelphia Typhus 1841 South States Yellow Fever 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8 Nationwide Influenza 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1852 Scattered part of the Nation Yellow Fever 1855 Nationwide ( New Orleans 8,000 deaths) Yellow Fever 1857-9 Worldwide Influenza 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans) Smallpox Baltimore, Memphis, Washington were hit with a series of epidemics Cholera Typhus Typhoid Scarlet Fever Yellow Fever 1873 N. America and Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans (last great out break) Yellow Fever 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide (more people were hospitalized Influenza in W.W.I from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% rate in some camps) In the following are mentioned with cholera out breaks: 1833 Columbus, OH 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851 Cools, CO., III, The Great Plains and Missouri