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Thought this might be interesting to all.

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 "In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors>
disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help.   >
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.  Some > of the
major epidemics in the United States are listed below:
> 
> 1657 Boston Measles
> 1687 Boston Measles
> 1690 New York Yellow Fever
> 1713 Boston Measles
> 1729 Boston Measles
> 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza
> 1738 South Carolina Smallpox
> 1739-40 Boston Measles
> 1747 CT,NY,PA,SC Measles
> 1759 N. Amer [areas inhabited by white people] Measles 
> 1761 N. Amer and West Indies Influenza
> 1772 N. America Measles
> 1775 N. Amer [especially hard in NE] epidemic Unknown
> 1775-6 Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] Influenza
> 1783 Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] Bilious> Disorder
> 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles
> 1793 Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and Influenza
> 1793 VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] Influenza
> 1793 Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] Yellow Fever
> 1793 Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] Unknown
> 1793 Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] Unknown
> 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever
> 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow> Fever
> 1798 Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] Yellow> Fever
> 1803 New York Yellow Fever
> 1820-3 Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and> spreads] "Fever"
> 1831-2 Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic> Cholera
> 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera
> 1837 Philadelphia Typhus
> 1841 Nationwide [especially severe in the south] Yellow> Fever
> 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever
> 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza
> 1848-9 North America Cholera
> 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
> 1850-1 North America Influenza
> 1852 Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] Yellow> Fever
> 1855 Nationwide [many parts] Yellow Fever
> 1857-9 Worldwide [one of the greated epidemics] Influenza> 1860-1 
Pennsylvania
Smallpox
> 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans} {Smallpox> Baltimore, 
Memphis,
Washington DC} {Cholera> [A series of recurring epidemics of:} {Typhus> 
{Typhoid
> {Scarlet Fever> {Yellow Fever
> 1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza
> 1878 New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever
> 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
> 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
> 1918 Worldwide[high point yr] more people were {Influenza> 
hospitalized in WWI
From this epidemic than> wounds.  US Army training camps became> death 
camps,
with 80% death rate in some> camps

 Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned:
> 
> 1833 Columbus, OH
> 1834 New York City
> 1849 New York
  1851 Coles Co.,IL , The Great Plains, and Missouri
----------------------------------------------------------------------Thought 
you may like this list in case you haven't seen it. Thought it was 
interesting. The next one is on the way as soon as this one is gone.


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