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Subject: Why so many deaths 1848-1852? Date: 27 Nov 1997 Name: Donna Your E-Mail address: dtivener@richnet.net Text of Message: > A reader writes:
> >I would like to know what caused so many deaths in the years
> >of 1848-1852. My ancester and his wife died in 1852. They
> >were buried in the Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery.> I'm not sure where one would go to find out other than doing
> one's own research. (Anyone else know?)> At that time period, 1848-1852, death records were not kept by
> the county or state. Too bad, because death records usually list
> cause of death.> Maybe some of the old county histories contain some mention?
I asked a Pro taking a course from Bringham Young Univ.
She said it was an outbreak of measles. I had my grt.
granparents lost two sons in Jeff. Co. Oh. 1852.
Wonder if this is the cause.
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