I recently found something that I thought might be of
interest to the folks on this list. My great
grandfather's nephew, Frank Etnire, died October 9,
1926 at the age of 14. When I looked up his death
record I found out that he died of diphtheria.
Looking at the other death records on the pages around
Frank's I found that 3 other school boys (all of whom
attended St. Boniface School in Lafayette) died of
diphtheria within about a week and a half of Frank's
death.
I started looking for their obits in the Lafayette
Journal and Courier and found several news items
announcing that there was a diphtheria epidemic in
Rossville and that all of the community schools and
several of the churches were being closed until the
outbreak died down.
Just something to keep in mind if you have a death in
your family in the area around that time, particularly
school aged children.
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