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From: Mary Ann Kaylor <>
Subject: Re: [ILMORGAN-L] Re: Cholera victims
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 08:29:50 -0500


Can't answer your question on the burials either, but do know the 1850
Mortality Schedules for most Counties, is full of deaths by chlorea. I
think there is a link to the 1850 Morgan Mortality on the Home page. Maybe
they don't give the cause of death on that one though?
This Mortality Schedule covers 1 July 1849 throuh 30 June 1850 deaths.

When transcribing the 1850 Jersey Mortality, I noted that whole families
were wiped out with this epidemic or most of them, leaving only one or two.
Would be interesting research.

Mary Ann
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At 08:53 AM 08/06/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/4/99 12:16:05 PM Central Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
><<
> Was there any one place in Jacksonville where the cholera death
> victims were buried? I have not been able to locate where these young
> BENNETT children might have been buried. >>
>
>Nancy,
>One of my ancestors died in the 1849 cholera epidemic in Jefferson County,
>and I was told that due to the large number of deaths in a short time, and
>the necessity of burying the bodies quickly to lessen the chance of
>transmission to others, that the victims were typically buried in mass
>graves, unmarked. I don't know that this is the case in Morgan, but it
might
>be. Very sad, isn't it?
>Juli Claussen
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