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From: Bill Utterback <>
Subject: [KYJP-L] Special File: Fulton County Deaths In 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 19:39:32 -0600

My friends -

Today's data post is something different from anything that I have offered
previously.

In the August to November time frame in 1878, Fulton County, and the town
of Hickman in particular, suffered a terrible outbreak of Yellow Fever,
which resulted in the deaths of over 100 individuals in that several month
period. On November 8, 1878, the Hickman Courier published a story about
the epidemic and gave the names and dates of death for these inidivduals,
including African American deaths(although there was no death date given
for those deaths). The fine folks at The Kentucky Explorer magazine
recently published this article, and I have extracted the names of those
who died from this disease, along with the dates of their deaths, and have
it available in a file in plain text format.

Listed below are the surnames that are listed in the article. In a number
of cases, it is tragic to watch, day after day, as whole families are
literally wiped out by a disease that is, today, virtually unknown to us in
this country. Several of the fine physicians of the area also succumbed to
the disease over this several month period. If your families were in this
area in 1878 and some of them disappeared, this could be the cause.

If you see a surname below in which you have an interest, and would like a
copy of the file, let me know that you would like the *Yellow Fever File*.
I will send it as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message, unless you
specify that you need it as
*straight e-mail*. As always, your help in not resending this entire
message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Given the
number of names in this collection, I can't extract individual names from
the list, so you will receive the complete file, from which you can cull
the names you need.

-B
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Fulton County: Deaths in 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic - Surnames

Hendricks
Mangel
Witting
Young
Davis

Heatherly
Hancock
Buckner
Gibbs
Bleeson

Sagrist
Coffee
Harnes
Reasoner
Wooten

Packett
Simones
Funk
Gardner
Kingman

Dunevant
McCain
Meyer
Holeman
Bright

Miller
Ashworth
Millet
Fortune
Sohm

Hertwick
Young
Blanton
Samse
Amber
Barnes

Nelson
Smith
Bayliss
Halyburton
Karcher
Parham

Dozier
Holt
Reid
Brevard
Stoner
Catlett

Shoemaker
Whal
Eckert
Balzer
Monroe

Prather
Bearger
Buncho
Thomas
Frenz
Neal

Jones
Whitting
Muse
Scharfe
Lacy
Amberg
O'Neal

Metheny
McConnell
Luttrell

Faris
Person
Bondurant
Stephens
Lane
Cook
Roulac

Buck
Glaser
Sames
Cobbs
Pollard
Sherron
Corbett

Overton
Barry
Flaser
Kesterson
Stoner
Wilburn
Greenup(from Frankfort)

Black
Anderson
Cole
Alexander
Vandever
Overton

African Americans:
Pullum
Bennet
Yancy
Upshaw
Adkins

Dodds
Bennett
Redick
Watson
Matison

Woodson
Devine
Landrum
Titus
Maddox
Freeman
Cross

~End of File~

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