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From: "Sally Pavia" <>
Subject: [GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES] Epidemics and Plagues .. Originally sentout in March 2007
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:17:09 -0700


Thought it might be helpful to resend this as some newer members might not
have seen it.


In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared
during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always
had a great influence on people - and thus influencing as well, the
genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from
records can be traced to their dying during an epidemic or moving away from
the affected area.

U.S. Epidemics
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001460.html

Plagues & Epidemics (from Plumber.com)
http://www.theplumber.com/plague.html

The American Experience: Influenza 1918
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/

Plague and Epidemic in Renaissance Europe
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/

If you have other epidemic links you like, please share here with us.
Periods of Disease


Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease
1657 / Boston / Measles
1687 / Boston / Measles
1690 / New York / Yellow Fever
1713 / Boston / Measles
1729 / Boston / Measles
1732-1733 / Worldwide / Influenza
1738 / South Carolina / Smallpox
1739-1740 / Boston / Measles
1747 / Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina / Smallpox
1759 / North America / Measles
1761 / North America and West Indies / Influenza
1772 / North America / Measles
1775 / North America (especially in North East) / Unknown
1775-1776 / Worldwide / Influenza
1783 / Dover, Delaware (was extremely fatal) / Bilious Disorder
1788 / Philadelphia and New York / Measles
1793 / Vermont / (a "putrid" fever) and Influenza
1793 / Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks) / Influenza
1793 / Philadelphia / Yellow Fever
1793 / Harrisburg, PA (many unexplained deaths) / Unknown
1793 / Middletown, Pennsylvania (many mysterious deaths) / Unknown
1794 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
1796-1797 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
1798 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the worst) / Yellow Fever
1803 / New York / Yellow Fever
1820-1823 / Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River & spread) / "Fever"
1831-1832 / Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) / Asiatic Cholera
1832 / New York and other major cities / Cholera
1833 / Columbus, Ohio / Cholera
1833-34 / Kentucky / Cholera
1834 / New York City, New York / Cholera
1837 / Philadelphia / Typhus
1841 / Nationwide (especially severe in the South) / Yellow Fever
1847 / New Orleans / Yellow Fever
1847-1848 / Worldwide / Influenza
1848-1849 / North America / Cholera
1849 / New York / Cholera
1850 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever
1850-1851 / North America / Influenza
1851 / Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri / Cholera
1852 / Nationwide (New Orleans 8,000 died that summer) / Yellow Fever
1855 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever
1857-1859 / Worldwide (one of the largest epidemics) / Influenza
1860-1861 / Pennsylvania / Smallpox
1865-1873 / Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Memphis, Washington DC / A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox,
Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Influenza
1873-1875 / North America & Europe / Influenza
1878 / New Orleans (last great epidemic) / Yellow Fever
1885 / Plymouth, Pennsylvania / Typhoid
1886 / Jacksonville, Florida / Yellow Fever
1918 / Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in WWI
from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death
camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. / Influenza or Spanish Flu



Sally Rolls Pavia

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