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From: "ELEANOR McCAIN" <>
Subject: RE: [KYKNOX] 1820s - Disappearance
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:23:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8C82518551734AE-1128-587C@MBLK-M28.sysops.aol.com>


Yes, I have considered that, and a variety of spellings as well. I
would consider it a possibility with the son who mar. the TN woman,
'specially since word never filtered back to TN that she was a new
widow. I can't help but wonder, however, if there was some kind of
disturbance that might have caused him to return to Knox Co. to help his
family (or bury them).
Thanks,
Eleanor

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Subject: Re: [KYKNOX] 1820s - Disappearance

Have you ever thought of a name change. I hadn't either until I started
researching one of my uncles. It appears that sometime between 1900 and
1912 the family name was changed from Roark to Maxie for some
unexplained reason. That is a hard thing to realize and I was just lucky
identifying the families. If it hadn't been for a couple of unusual
first names I might have missed it entirely. Jerry.

-----Original Message-----
From: ELEANOR McCAIN <>
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Sent: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:42:44 -0400
Subject: RE: [KYKNOX] 1820s - Disappearance


Good point! I always felt it has to be something most unusual - son
deserted (or simply left with the promise to return) his wife of a few
years in Grainger Co., TN, then never is heard from again (he went back
home to help out?) - at least as far as any written surviving record is
concerned. There, of course, is always the other explanation, that he
simply left - but when two families and at least 3-9 individuals just
vanish, there has to be more to it. I didn't know if a history of Knox
Co. addressed this time frame and its problems.

Thanks,
Eleanor

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Eleanor

Scroll down this list of Epidemics to 1822. Could this be a possible
cause
of your family's disappearance....Lois
.

Some Of the Major Epidemics in the United States

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 dying during an epidemic or moving away from
the affected area.
--------------------------
1657 Boston: Measles
1687 Boston: Measles
1690 New York: Yellow Fever
1713 Boston: Measles
1729 Boston: Measles
1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza
1738 South Carolina: Smallpox
1739-40 Boston: Measles
1747 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina:
Measles
1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles
1761-61 North America & West Indies: Influenza
1772 North America: Measles

1775 North America (especially hard in New England):
Epidemic (unknown)

1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza
1781-82 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics)
1788 Philadelphia & New York: Measles
1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever"
1793 Virginia: Influenza (kills 500 people in 5 counties in 4
weeks)
1793 Philadelphia: Yellow fever (one of worst)
1783 Delaware (Dover): "extremely fatal" bilious disorder
1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown): many unexplained
deaths
1794 Philadelphia: Yellow fever
1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst)
1803 New York: Yellow Fever
1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA &
spreads)
1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants)
1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera
1837 Philadelphia: Typhus
1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South)
1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever
1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza
1848-49 North America: Cholera
1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever
1850-51 North America: Influenza
1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans: 8,000 die in
summer)
1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever
1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics)
1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox

1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans,
Baltimore, Memphis, & Washington D.C.:
a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus,
Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever

1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza
1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease)
1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, Fl: Yellow Fever

1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year)
More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds.
US Army training camps became death camps-with 80 percent death
rate in some camps. Finally, these specific instances of cholera were
mentioned:

1833 Columbus, Ohio
1834 New York City
1849 New York
1851 Coles Co., Illinois
1851 The Great Plains
1851 Missouri

.

Elijah Bibbins had 400 acres on Laurel Creek, but he "lost it" somehow,
in about 1822, and does not show up in later Laurel Co. records or
census. Thus my quandary.

Thanks for any assistance!

Eleanor




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