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From: Chuck Bennett <>
Subject: [IASCOTT] Cholera about 1851?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:34:02 -0500


Does anyone know of a cholera outbreak in Scott County about 1851? Are
there any surviving newspaper or other accounts of it. perhaps with a list
of victims?

In researching the family of my wife's gg-grandmother, Maria Christiana
(Schuh) Mounce, I found IGI entries stating that her sister Dorothea
(Schuh) Friday and Dorothea's husband, Gottlieb/Goodlief Friday, had both
died in the first week of July in 1851. Yesterday I examined the probate
packet for Goodlief Friday on microfilm, and among the claims was one from
Dr. J. Sanger for medical treatment of Goodlief and the couple's two
daughters for cholera asiatica (one of the two daughters, Magdalena Friday,
survived and was the subject of a guardianship). There was no mention of
treatment for Dorothea. These folks lived in or near Buffalo, but I still
have not been able to locate their burial place.

Chuck Bennett




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