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From: "gordon j fitton" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Small pox
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:51:18 -0700
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Hi

Thanks for the information....

I guess the only way in finding a death notice is to go
thru all the films that the LDS has and hope for the best

Take care
Gordon



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Kenwright" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: [CHS] Small pox


> Hi Tracy, Gordon and list,
> I too am interested in finding out more about smallpox.
> My grandfather caught it when a baby in Manchester. He survived, but he
was
> marked by it.
> I don't know how he was cared for while he had the disease.
> He lived to be 72 , twice married and had 11 children. I never knew him
but
> we do have a photograph taken with his family around him. He would be
about
> 64 at the time and his face looks weathered and rough, not horrific,
> although his looks did upset people when he was a child.
> Doreen Kenwright
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hayley.b" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 30 July 2004 20:02
> Subject: Re: [CHS] Small pox
>
>
> >I have some who died of it, in Lancashire admittedly
> > but they were listed in the church burial registers.
> >
> > A funny thing happened with regard to the family and Smallpox, one of my
> > ancestors must have had it and lived, before they produced the next
> > generation down towards me as my Granddad was exposed to it, put in
> > quarantine in a ward with the sick, he helped the nurses feed them and
all
> > of that but didn't show one symptom, it looks like he inherited his
> immunity
> > to it.
> >
> > Tracey
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "gordon j fitton" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:14 PM
> > Subject: [CHS] Small pox
> > > Hi
> > > Will persons that died from small pox be listed in the
> > > family church. burials I have found a few but not all the children
> > > of my relatives who died of small pox
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Gordon
>
>
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