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From: "Marilyn Willer" <>
Subject: Re: [OHAUG] Unoccupied-Census
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:18:48 -0400


My grandma was born in Sep. 1860.....In Nov. of 1860 three of her older
siblings died at the ages of 7 yrs., 5 and 2 yrs. old. Any idea what may
have been going around at that time, to cause the deaths of these children?
Marilyn


> They had typhoid outbreak about 1881. My great great aunt died in that
one in New
> Hampshire, Goshen Twnp.
>
> Diane
>
> sueyork wrote:
>
> > Yes, from my reading of the history of Auglaize County, there was an
outbreak
> > of cholera in 1849 that killed at least 150 of the 700 citizens in
German
> > Township of Auglaize Co. My Great-great-great-grandfather died in
August of
> > 1849 in New Bremen, so I figure that he was one of the victims of the
cholera.
> >
> > Susann York
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Wasn't there a large Cholera outbreak in Auglaize county (esp. Minster
area)
> > > in the 1850s? Maybe the unoccupied houses were former residences of
the
> > > victims.
>
>

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