BTRVETC-L Digest Volume 98 : Issue 73 11 Nov 1998 Today's Topics: Re: Sonny Griffith Sickness>Deaths>Epidemics Burnett books Re: sickness and death LOST ALL MY MAIL! Administrivia: for the Burnett/Turner/Ross/Via/Etc Mailing List (BTRVETC-L) Welcome to all our new subscribers; please send us a message to let us know what lines you are working on. :-) Please post your messages to: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org (that's a lowercase ell, not a number one.) (you must be subscribed to post) To unsubscribe, email btrvetc-d-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: UNSUBSCRIBE. To subscribe to the regular list, email btrvetc-l-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: SUBSCRIBE You can also use the web page at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/BTRVETC/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 07:14:24 EST From: WalkingEd@aol.com To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org Subject: Re: Sonny Griffith Message-ID: <1c55bcfa.36458b20@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit << www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/i/Marvin-C-Griffith-jr. >> Hi Sonny Griffith, I couldn't access the above address. Please contact me personally as we share several surnames. Lisa Walkinged@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 08:05:29 EST From: RAGLADY@aol.com To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org Subject: Sickness>Deaths>Epidemics Message-ID: <4295e81d.36459719@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit An earlier post about the above reminded me of an item I had in my files. I had saved because like many, also wondered about the multiple losses within families in a short period of time. The following may help explain. Gloria Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County "Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol 20, No l, Fall 1993, South Bend (IN) Area Genealogical Society "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 dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below: ^Õ1657 - Boston -- Measles ^Õ1687 - Boston -- Measles ^Õ1690 - New York --Yellow Fever ^Õ1713 - Boston -- Measles ^Õ1729 - Boston -- Measles ^Õ1732-3 - Worldwide -- Influenza ^Õ1738 - South Carolina -- Smallpox ^Õ1739-40 - Boston -- Measles ^Õ1747 - CT,NY,PA,SC -- Measles ^Õ1759 - North America [areas inhabited by white people] -- Measles ^Õ1761 - North America and West Indies -- Influenza ^Õ1772 - North America -- Measles ^Õ1775 - North America [especially hard in Northeast] epidemic -- Unknown ^Õ1775-6 - Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] -- Influenza ^Õ1783 - Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] -- Bilious Disorder ^Õ1788 - Philadelphia and New York -- Measles ^Õ1793 - Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and -- Influenza ^Õ1793 - Virginia [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] -- Influenza ^Õ1793 - Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1793 - Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] -- Unknown ^Õ1793 - Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] -- Unknown ^Õ1794 - Philadelphia, PA -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1796-7 - Philadelphia, PA -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1798 - Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1803 - New York -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1820-3 - Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] -- "Fever" ^Õ1831-2 - Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] -- Asiatic Cholera ^Õ1832 - New York City and other major cities -- Cholera ^Õ1837 - Philadelphia -- Typhus ^Õ1841 - Nationwide [especially severe in the south] -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1847 - New Orleans -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1847-8 - Worldwide -- Influenza ^Õ1848-9 - North America -- Cholera ^Õ1850 - Nationwide -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1850-1 - North America -- Influenza ^Õ1852 - Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1855 - Nationwide [many parts] -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1857-9 - Worldwide [one of the greated epidemics] -- Influenza ^Õ1860-1 - Pennsylvania -- Smallpox ^Õ1865-73 - Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans -- Smallpox ^Õ1865-73 - Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC -- Cholera ^Õ[A series of recurring epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever] ^Õ1873-5 - North America and Europe -- Influenza ^Õ1878 - New Orleans [last great epidemic] -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1885 - Plymouth, PA -- Typhoid ^Õ1886 - Jacksonville, FL -- Yellow Fever ^Õ1918 - Worldwide [high point year] -- Influenza ^ÕMore 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: ^Õ1833 Columbus, OH ^Õ1834 New York City ^Õ1849 New York ^Õ1851 Coles Co., Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 05:45:01 -0800 From: jbbork@ix.netcom.com To: "BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org" Subject: Burnett books Message-ID: <3645A05D.7DFF@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those of you who wish to order one of the BURNETTS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS books, please let me know by email and I will have the book printed and will mail it out the day your check arrives. Thanks, June http://www.junebaldwinbork.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:40:04 -0500 (EST) From: ncgen@mindspring.com (Elizabeth Harris) To: BTRVETC-L Subject: Re: sickness and death Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > These are all the deaths by fever in the upper end of Hawkins >County, since about the first of July, in about 20 miles on Holston >river, from Ross's bridge to four or five miles below Surgoinsville. The >sickness has been confined to about a mile on each side of the river. >There have been probably 400 people sick in this bounds. A great number >are still sick but generally their cases have become fever and ague. The >sick have been very subject to relapses, and there are few who have been >sick that are perfectly recovered. There have been but six new cases >since the late rain, and perhaps none within the last five or six days. >More than two thirds of those who have died were old people, or at least >past the prime of life. -- The fever is a bilious remittent and >intermittent, and in soe cases, early in the season, highly malignant. >Laterly there have been a great many cases of fever and ague. The people >have suffered much for want of Doctors and medicine. Very interesting - the relapsing nature, and the summer season, suggests malaria. Have there been any modern investigations to determine if this was the case? Elizabeth Harris ncgen@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:07:47 -0500 From: "Waddie B. Salmon" To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org Subject: LOST ALL MY MAIL! Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Cuzins, If you have written me and I have not replied would you please resend your message. I lost all my mail and my addresses on my server and what I was holding in my computer. Take care, Cuzin Waddie -------------------------------- End of btrvetc-d Digest V98 Issue #73 *************************************