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Subject: Epidemics
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:19:59 -0600
From: Dan Brennan <rockydan(a)cebridge.net>
To: INCASS-L(a)rootsweb.com
References: <200601031901.k03J1xZK010449(a)lists2.rootsweb.com>
< Jan wrote: Does anyone know of any epidemics, large or small,
that might
have affected Cass County in either 1880 or 1883?>
I would second the idea of smallpox. We have an 1880 census page from
South Bend in which all seven children are
listed a sick with smallpox. Incidentally they all seem to have survived!)