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From: C & C Helck <>
Subject: Re: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Re: Typhoid - Diphtheria 1888
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:30:23 -0400
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In my great-grandfather's family of 7 boys, three of them died of
diphtheria between May 8 and May 22, 1882. They lived in Germantown. Guess
the epidemics kind of came and went.

Catharine

At 06:03 PM 6/1/00 -0400, Margaret Green wrote:
> My gr grandparents lived in Bristol, Pa. (just north of Phila.),
>surname Froelich.
> According to the cemetery records:
>On July 25, 1888 a son, age 3 years 4 months, died from
>"diphtheria"
>On July 27, 1888 a daughter, age 5 years 10 months, died from
>"diphtheria"
>On Aug. 9, 1888 a daughter, age 1 year 5 months, died from
>"seizures" (of course my personal opinion is that the
>"seizures" were from diphtheria).
>On Aug. 12, 1888 the only surviving child, my grandfather, had his
>7th birthday. They had no more children and family history says gr
>grandmother took it hard.
> This family lost 3 young children within 15 days. The cemetery
>record says diphtheria. I know this happened a lot in the days
>before modern medicine and vaccinations but I always think about
>this family and how sad it was.
>Marge Green

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