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Have you lost an ancestor that you can\u2019t find anywhere? In some cases, when an ancestor drops off the face of the earth and you\u2019re clueless as to the disappearance of an ancestor check Epidemics that may have happened in areas where they lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epidemics have always had a great influence on people and on our family history research, as well. In many cases, a person\u2019s disappearance from records can be traced to an epidemic.  The following is an incomplete list of Epidemics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1657<\/td>\nBoston, MA<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1687<\/td>\nBoston, MA<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1690<\/td>\nNew York, NY<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1713<\/td>\nBoston, MA<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1729<\/td>\nBoston, MA<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1732-1733<\/td>\nWorldwide<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1738<\/td>\nSouth Carolina<\/td>\nSmallpox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1739-1740<\/td>\nBoston, MA<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1747<\/td>\nConnecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1759<\/td>\nNorth America<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1761<\/td>\nNorth America & West Indies<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1772<\/td>\nNorth America<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1775<\/td>\nNorth America, especially in New England<\/td>\nEpidemic, unknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1775-1776<\/td>\nWorldwide<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1788<\/td>\nPhiladelphia & New York<\/td>\nMeasles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\nVermont<\/td>\nInfluenza & \u201cputrid fever\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\nVirginia<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\nPhiladelphia, PA<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1783<\/td>\nDover, Delaware<\/td>\nBilious disorder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\nHarrisburg & Middletown, PA<\/td>\nUnexplained deaths<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1794<\/td>\nPhiladelphia, PA<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1796-1797<\/td>\nPhiladelphia, PA<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1798<\/td>\nPhiladelphia, PA<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1803<\/td>\nNew York<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1820-1823<\/td>\nNationwide, starts on Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania & spreads<\/td>\nFever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1831-1832<\/td>\nNationwide, brought by English emigrants<\/td>\nAsiatic Cholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1832<\/td>\nNew York & other major cities<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1833<\/td>\nColumbus, OH<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1834<\/td>\nNew York City, NY<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1837<\/td>\nPhiladelphia, PA<\/td>\nTyphus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1841<\/td>\nNationwide, severe in the South<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1847<\/td>\nNew Orleans, LA<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1847-1848<\/td>\nWorldwide<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1848-1849<\/td>\nNorth America<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1849<\/td>\nNew York<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1850<\/td>\nNationwide<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1850-1851<\/td>\nNorth America<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1851<\/td>\nColes County, IL<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1851<\/td>\nThe Great Plains<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1851<\/td>\nMissouri<\/td>\nCholera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1852<\/td>\nNationwide<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1855<\/td>\nNationwide<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1857-1859<\/td>\nWorldwide<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1860-1861<\/td>\nPennsylvania<\/td>\nSmallpox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1865-1873<\/td>\nPhiladelphia, PA; Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; Memphis, TN & Washington D.C.<\/td>\nRecurring epidemics: Smallpox; Cholera; Typus; Typhoid; Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1873-1875<\/td>\nNorth America & Europe<\/td>\nInfluenza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1878<\/td>\nNew Orleans, LA<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1885<\/td>\nPlymouth, PA<\/td>\nTyphoid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1886<\/td>\nJacksonville, FL<\/td>\nYellow Fever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1918*<\/td>\nWorldwide<\/td>\nInfluenza  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

*More people were hospitalized during the 1918 outbreak of Influenza during World War I than wounds. U.S. Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you lost an ancestor that you can\u2019t find anywhere? In some cases, when an ancestor drops off the face of the earth and you\u2019re clueless as to the disappearance of an ancestor check Epidemics that may have happened in areas where they lived. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people and on Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epidemics","tag-epidemics"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Darlene Anderson","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/author\/darlene-anderson\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Epidemics<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Epidemics<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["epidemics<\/a>"],"unlinked":["epidemics<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 13, 2022","modified":"Updated on February 13, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 13, 2022 1:50 pm","modified":"Updated on February 13, 2022 2:32 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/hickman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}