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BEAUMONT is 5 miles NORTH of DALLAS, - near Wilkes Barre, PA

From BEAUMONT, WYOMING CO. PA to ???? or FROM ??? TO BEAUMONT

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GRANDPARENTS (deceased) Russell Gerdon Transue Sr Hazel Elizabeth Featherman Transue Anna Julia Whispel Fish Oscar Albert Fish (stepgrandfather) Christopher George (Greek Immigrant )

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List of the Epidemics in the US 1657 - 1918 Epidemics in U.S.   1657-1918 1657 Boston: Measles 1687 Boston: Measles 1690 New York: Yellow Fever 1713 Boston: Measles 1729 Boston: Measles 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox 1739-40 Boston: Measles 1747 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & SC: Measles 1759 North America: Measles 1761 North America & West Indies: Influenza 1772 north America: Measles 1775 North America(especially hard in New England): unknown epidemic 1775-6 Worldwide: Influenza (one of the worst flu epidemics) 1778 Philadelphia & New York: Measles 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" 1793 Virginia: Influenza (kills 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks) 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1783 Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg 7 Middletown): many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow fever 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1803 New York: Yellow Fever 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads) 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza 1848-49 North America: Cholera 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever 1850-51 North America: Influenza 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans; 8,000 die in summer) 1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis & Washington DC: a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) 1885 Phymouth, PA: Typhoid 1886: Jacksonville FL: Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps – with 80% death rate in some camps. Finally theses specific instances of Cholera were mentioned: 1833 Columbus Ohio 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851: Coles Co., Illinois 1851 The Great Plans 1851 Missouri

PA Vital records http://www.health.state.pa.us/vitalrecords/    Folk Finders http://www.folkfinders.com/        Luzerne County Genealogy & History http://www.rootsweb.com/~paluzern/luzerne.htm    Luzerne County GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~panepgs/            Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society http://www.whgs.org/            Luzerne County Historical Society http://www.cfrobbins.com/grsnp/            Genealogical Research Society of Northeast Pennsylvania http://www.rootsweb.com/~paplyhs/PHS/            Plymouth Historical Society http://genforum.genealogy.com/pa/luzerne/            Luzerne County Genealogy Forum

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