In a message dated 5/21/2003 9:22:29 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > On my recent trip to Pendleton County I was told there had been an > epidemic of Scarlet Fever sometime in the 1800s. Does anybody know more > about this: Did it happen? When? How serious was it? Noted epidemics in the 19th Century: 1803 / New York / Yellow Fever 1820-1823 / Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River & spread) / "Fever" 1831-1832 / Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) / Asiatic Cholera 1832 / New York and other major cities / Cholera 1833 / Columbus, Ohio / Cholera 1833-34 / Kentucky / Cholera 1834 / New York City, New York / Cholera 1837 / Philadelphia / Typhus 1841 / Nationwide (especially severe in the South) / Yellow Fever 1847 / New Orleans / Yellow Fever 1847-1848 / Worldwide / Influenza 1848-1849 / North America / Cholera 1849 / New York / Cholera 1850 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever 1850-1851 / North America / Influenza 1851 / Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri / Cholera 1852 / Nationwide (New Orleans 8,000 died that summer) / Yellow Fever 1855 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever 1857-1859 / Worldwide (one of the largest epidemics) / Influenza 1860-1861 / Pennsylvania / Smallpox 1865-1873 / Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC / A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Influenza 1873-1875 / North America & Europe / Influenza 1878 / New Orleans (last great epidemic) / Yellow Fever 1885 / Plymouth, Pennsylvania / Typhoid 1886 / Jacksonville, Florida / Yellow Fever Also Researching: Appley, Asbury, Barnum, Bauder/Bader, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Carr, Clark, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Grim, Hardendorf, Harman, Hawk, Hayes, Henkle/Hinkle, Keith, Marcy, Pier, Sawyer, Summerfield, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Teter, Tinkham, Thompson/Thomson, Walker, Whitlam, Wilks, Wolford, Wood, Woolever. http://www.treelines.com http://www.lineage.net Regards, Diane Wolford ====Useful sites==== http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ (Hints for starting) http://communities.msn.com/AGenealogyExperience (A Genealogy Experience)