Re: Look-Up Needed
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Re: Look-Up Needed
Karen Ery-Philips 7/02/04
I thought the same thing when I first found the information.But I looked in many issues before and many issues after (basically a year in both directions) and found no mention of an epidemic of any kind.In the summer before they came (1879) there was mention of two or three people dying in the area of diphtheria, but that is all I found.
Perhaps they had contracted something deadly on their trip and the townspeople not knowing what they had died of, perhaps hurried Mary's burial.I wish I could give you more information, but that's all there is.
Let me know if I can be of any more help.
Bill
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Re: Look-Up Needed
Karen Ery-Philips 7/04/04