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Tobe Collinsworth

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Tobe Collinsworth

Birth
Livia, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA
Death
May 1895 (aged 22–23)
Plano, Collin County, Texas, USA
Burial
Plano, Collin County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Nephew who passed away during the small pox outbreak.



The small pox epidemic in the community west of Plano has proven to be fatal and very sad with the Collinsworth family. The following is clipped from yesterday's Dallas News:"

Plano, Collin Co., Tex., May 21 - Tobe Collinsworth, 23 years old, whose parents live in Livia, Ky., died with small-pox this evening at the home of Mrs. Levi Collinsworth, five miles west of Plano, who lost her husband with the dreaded disease ten days ago. This is the fourth death in the Collinsworth families in the past month from this disease. Mrs. F. M. Collinsworth now has the disease and Mrs. Levi Collinsworth and 9-year-old daughter are the only ones that have recovered after taking same.
Nephew who passed away during the small pox outbreak.



The small pox epidemic in the community west of Plano has proven to be fatal and very sad with the Collinsworth family. The following is clipped from yesterday's Dallas News:"

Plano, Collin Co., Tex., May 21 - Tobe Collinsworth, 23 years old, whose parents live in Livia, Ky., died with small-pox this evening at the home of Mrs. Levi Collinsworth, five miles west of Plano, who lost her husband with the dreaded disease ten days ago. This is the fourth death in the Collinsworth families in the past month from this disease. Mrs. F. M. Collinsworth now has the disease and Mrs. Levi Collinsworth and 9-year-old daughter are the only ones that have recovered after taking same.

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