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From: "Brenda Linkeman" <>
Subject: Re: [IAALLAMA-L] years of sickness
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:48:58 -0500
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Hi Kathy,

I plan to go up to Allamakee next week, and I will look at the newspapers
which are, thankfully, now in the basement of the museum/courthouse in
Waukon, to see if there are any clues about epidemics, etc. at those times.

Brenda

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Maurer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 8:39 PM
Subject: [IAALLAMA-L] years of sickness


> This is a stretch, but I wondered if anyone on the list has come across
some
> documentation that might show years in which diseases swept through
> Allamakee County as epidemics or near epidemics. I have two unrelated gg
> grandparents who died in May 1883. I was told recently that the
60-year-old
> man died of typhoid fever. The other was a 34-year-old woman who did
*not*
> die in childbirth. That revelation caused me to wonder if she, too, died
of
> typhoid fever.
>
> Also, in 1924, I lost a great grandmother and 17-year-old great aunt to
TB,
> in February and July, respectively. I don't know if TB can reach epidemic
> levels like other diseases.
>
> Still, I wonder, if others have found a solid source or simply
coincidental
> deaths.
>
> Kathy in Michigan
>
> (McLaughlin, O'Meara, Fenelon, Danaher, Ryan lines)
>
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