David,
Cholera is a very likely cause, but only a guess. See the following quote:
"...there are two other diseases/epidemics to consider-- the first was milk
fever and/or cholera. Lincoln's mother died of the milk fever. You got it
from drinking the milk of an infected cow. And you didn't know the cow was
infected until several days after the cow ate the poisonous snakeroot plant
that grew in wooded areas. The cow would often die after a few days. This
often happened in droughts when cattle would forage in shaded areas looking
for food. And cholera often affected people at certain times in certain
areas. In southern Indiana during the 1830-40's, there was a cholera
epidemic. And what 'doctors' there were often couldn't distinguish cholera
from milk sickness."
Regards,
Dan Elliott
Coordinator INGenWeb
http://ingenweb.org/ingibson/
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From: ingibson-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:ingibson-bounces@rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of David Hudelson
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:45 PM
To: INGIBSON(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INGIBSON] Hudelson Cemetery
Study of Find-a-Grave listings of Hudelsons buried in Gibson County shows
two half-brothers that died within three days of each other in March 1843
are buried in a "Hudelson Cemetery." Their father Samuel Crawford Hudelson
(18 Oct 1799 - 27 Sep 1872) and his second wife Catherine Fleming (18 Mar
1799 - 07 Jan 1871) are buried elsewhere, in Warnock Cemetery at
Princeton. This raises two questions:
1. Does anybody know the location in Gibson County of the Hudelson Cemetery?
2. Does anybody know of an event that might explain these
near-simultaneous deaths? Was there an outbreak of a disease that would
have encompassed second week of March, 1843?
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