There are still a few stories floating around about the flu epidemic of 1918. Hardy Crosby's father was coming home from work one day and saw a coffin just sitting in the Adkisson Cemetery. A young boy had died and his family was able to carry him to the cemetery but were too sick to bury him. Hardy and his father buried him where his coffin sat. >From: Patsy H Weikart <qmgen@juno.com> >To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Periods of Disease >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:12:59 -0700 > >PERIODS of DISEASE > >Taken from the Genealogical Society of Stanislaus County,CA - newsletter >titled: > " Stanislaus Researcher" - Volume 22 - Number 7 - July 2000 > >Order of listing: >Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease > >1657 - Boston - Measles >1687 - Boston - Measles >1690 - New York- Yellow Fever >1713 - Boston - Measles >1729 - Boston- Measles >1732-33 Worldwide- Influenza >1738 - South Carolina - Smallpox >1739-40 - Boston - Measles >1747- CT, NY, PA, SC - Smallpox >1759 - North America - Measles >1761 - North America - Influenza >1772 - North America - Measles >1775 - North America- Unknown >1775-76 - Worldwide- Influenza >1783 - Dover, DE - Bilious Disorder >1788 - Phila. + New York - Measles >1793- VT (putrid fever) + Influenza >1793- VA Influenza (500 in 4 weeks) >1793 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever >1793 - Harrisburg, PA - Unknown >1793 - Middletown, PA - Yellow Fever >1794 - Philadelphia- Yellow Fever >1796 - 97 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever >1798 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever >1803 - New York- Yellow Fever >1820- 1823- - Nationwide- "Fever" >1831-1832- - Nationwide- Asiatic Cholera >1832- New York & other big cities - Cholera >1833 - Columbus, Ohio - Cholera >1833-34 - Kentucky - Cholera >1834- New York City, New York - Cholera >1837 - Philadelphia - Typhus >1841- Nationwide - (bad in South) - Yellow Fever >1847 - New Orleans - Yellow Fever >1847-48 - Worldwide- Influenza >1848-49 - North America - Cholera >1849 - New York - Cholera >1850- Nationwide- Yellow Fever >1851- Coles Co., Great Plains, MO. - Cholera >1852 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever >1855 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever >1857-59 - Worldwide - Influenza >1860-61 - Pennsylvania- Smallpox >1865-73 - 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. >1873-75 - North America + Europe - Influenza >1878- New Orleans - Yellow Fever >1885 - Plymouth, PA - Typhoid >1886 - Jacksonville, FL - Yellow Fever >1918 - Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in World >War I from this >epidemic than wounds. U S Army training camps became death camps, with >80% death rate in some camps. - Influenza or Spanish Flu. >(post by patsy) > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.