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Subject: Re: [ARPRAIRI] HENDRIX family
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:02:54 EDT
In a message dated 10/6/99 6:57:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
writes:
<< I have been told that five of their children also died at that time
of "the fever". Does anyone know of any kind of epidemic that occurred
there at that time? >>
I have some ancestors from Prairie county that also died of "the chills and
fever". From other accounts that I have read, that is what is now known as
malaria, and it often killed entire families at a time.
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