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From: Wanda Irby <>
Subject: Re: [TXBOWIE-L] EWING, John Herschel and the typhoid epidemic of 1926-27
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 07:24:35 -0500
Are you talking about the town of Bowie or the County of Bowie. They
are not the same and are not near each other! Bowie (the town) is in
Montague Co. Bowie the County is in east TX near Texarkana. I believe
the list is Bowie County.
Rosie wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> I was so grateful to find this list, because who better to ask about the
> history of Bowie, TX and surroundings than those who either live there or
> are researching there.
>
> My grandfather, John Herschel EWING, was a farmer near Bowie in the '20's
> until he died 3 Jan 1926 as the result of contracting typhoid fever. It
> has always seemed odd to me that there should have been an outbreak of
> typhoid in the dead of winter, but that seems to have been the case.
>
> John Herschel EWING, along with my Grandmother Nannie Cordelia Pirtle
> EWING, had a family of 7 children. It is my understanding through oral
> family history that all the children and my grandmother contracted the
> fever that winter. My grandfather abandoned all other tasks to care for
> his wife and children, following them into quarantine in some large
> building there in Bowie (I have heard "armory" and I have heard "church").
> Just as the crisis was passed by my mother, Dorothy Lee, who was an infant
> at the time and the last to suffer the disease, John Herschel fell ill and
> passed away from the fever combined with his exhausted and weakened
> physical condition.
>
> I am writing an article for my family history organization, Clan Ewing in
> America, about John Herschel and the typhoid epidemic which took his life.
> Although I never met my grandfather ( dead nearly 20 years before my birth
> ), I want to honor him in this way by telling his story.
>
> I would like to hear from anyone who knows anything at all about that
> typhoid epidemic--how wide-spread it was, how many died ( approx ), how
> were the community and county of Bowie affected, and just any small tidbits
> of information that might add depth to the story I hope to tell.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give,
>
> CarolSue Hair
>
> *Rosie*
> ___________
>
> *It Grows*
>
> "THE EWING FAMILY TREE"
> http://www.mindspring.com/~csh1/ewingpage.html
>
> ___________
>
> In the Garden, Mystery Glows--The Secret Hidden In the Rose
>
> "POETRY AND PROSE AND OKIEROSE"
> http://www.mindspring.com/~csh1/rosepage.html
>
> ___________
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