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From: "Ann O'Hara" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:54:07 -0400
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Yes, there were many with the Burrows spelling in Deposit. I'm related to a
lot of them don't recognize the children's names.

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Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156

Hubbard and Mary Wilkins Burrows lived in Deposit and had children there
after 1800. None were these children, but I just wanted to make sure you
don't disregard the spelling of Burrows as it is on the stone.

Gwen Costello Becker





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From: Bob Norton <>
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Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:06:36 AM
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156

wrote:
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. FOUR DEATHS IN DEPOSIT IN 12 DAYS ()
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> Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:08:56 -0400 From:
Subject: [NYDELAWA]
> FOUR DEATHS IN DEPOSIT IN 12 DAYS To: Message-ID:
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> Greetings Everyone ...
>
> I have come across something that I have seen before, but this puzzles me
a bit ... I have
> four children ranging in age from 3 years to 12 years ... I believe they
all are from the
> same household ... they all died in Deposit, Delaware County, NY within
twelve days of each
> other ...

> Calista E. BURROWS died 17 Apr 1838 aged 6y 1m 24d
> James B. BURROWS died 19 Apr 1838 aged 11y 1m 16d
> William B. BURROWS died 26 Apr 1838 aged 3y 10m 28d
> Charles T. BURROWS died 29 Apr 1838 aged 12y 0m 29d

> They are all buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Stilesville (Deposit), but
there is no listing of
> who their parents are on their stones. I guess I could wait until I my
next trip back east
> and go look in the cemetery to see who they are buried near and try and
figure it out that
> way, but I was hoping someone on here might know whose children they are.
Also if there is
> anyway to find out what type of illness might have ripped through the area
at that time that
> would have taken all these children. Look forward to hearing from you all.
>
> Thanks John Aiello Los Angeles, CA
>
John,
I'm not absolutely positive but I'm pretty sure that those dates
correspond with a typhoid
epidemic.

If the entire family died, it's possible that there was no one to tell the
stonecutter the
correct spelling of the name. I'd strongly consider Burroughs as there were
a lot more of them
in Delaware county than Burrows.

I can give you many examples of serious errors on gravestones from that
period that may have
all been made by the same person.
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