Cholera Deaths
This page was updated on October 26, 2016
Death Notice transcriptions from various Adams County newspapers from the 1850s.
Transcribed and contributed by Flora McCarty
CHOLERA DEATHS from ADAMS COUNTY NEWSPAPERS
June 26, 1851
Francis Shinn
Jul 1851
July 2, George Shinn
July 6, Mrs. Elizabeth Lytle
July 7 Francis A. G. Shinn
July 9 H. N. Cole
July 10 Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan
July 11, Mrs. Mary Lafferty
July 12, John Buchanan
July 13 Thomas Prather
July 14 Ann Olevis Prather
July 19 Jeremiah Grant, 6 yrs (measles)
23 Jul 1851
Daggy, Rev
Ellis, widow
Gordon family – 6 members
July 24 Mary A. Prather
July 26 George Grant
July 27
Margaret McCauly
William Santee
Mrs. Catharine McCanly
Louis Sanders
July 29
Miss Caroline Lafferty
Allice Brooks Prather
July 30
Mrs. Jane Crawford
Sophia Grant, 6 yrs. (measles)
Mrs. Mary Hitchins
Francis M. Hayslip
Miss Margaret A. Hayslip
July 31,
Andrew Haines
Cornelia Santee
Arthur McFarland, sen.
August 1851
Aug 1, Mrs. Elizabeth Meider
Aug 2,
Gen. Joseph Darlinton
Mrs. Sanders
Robert Jackson, Esq
No Date
Parker Y. Young
Miss Mary Young,
Mrs. Mary Owen
Miss Eliziannah Owen
JUNE 1852
June 14
Miss Collins, age 6
John Barrows, age 5
Nancy Pitts, age 11
Mary Rusk, age 20
Lizzie Rusk, age 12
Joseph Bramble, about 30
June 15
Mrs. Kusk, age 40
Rebecca Rusk, age 16
Caroline Rusk, age 10
Mrs. Cromwell, age 50
Mrs. Richie, age 36
Mrs. Moore, age 46
Mr. Ramsley, age 12
Nicholas Pitts, age 20
Mary King, age 10
Sanford Williams, age 45
Mrs. Catherine Crannock, age 25
M. Connor, age 10
June 16, 1852
Mr. H. Johnson, age 50
Son of Mr. Pitts, age 10
James Taylor, age 40
Miss Julia Connel, age 25
After June 16
Lewis King
Mr. Conner
Mrs. Kennedy
Miss Susan Rusk
Maria Rusk, infant
Son of Mrs. Moore, age 10
Mrs. Drue
3 other Rusk children at risk
27 July1855
Dr. John McFarland
Smith Rose
Son of Mr. James Pixley
Mr. Pixley
Mrs. James Abbott and 3 of her children
Mrs. Dr. Holderness
Jesse Wikoff
Mr. Rose