The Charleston Courier (abstract by Betty Rolwing Darnell)
24 August 1866.
On Friday night last, Mrs. Rush, wife of Alfred Rush, Esq., living on Rush's Ridge, died of cholera. From what we can learn, the epidemic seized its victim while in Cairo on Thursday last, at which place Mrs. Rush visited for the purpose of getting some teeth extracted. She was taken sick about midnight on Thursday, and died in twenty-four hours afterwards.
Source: "Muddy Roots" Mississippi County Genealogical Society Volume 10, Number 2, June 1992.
The Charleston Courier (abstract by Betty Rolwing Darnell)
24 August 1866.
On Friday night last, Mrs. Rush, wife of Alfred Rush, Esq., living on Rush's Ridge, died of cholera. From what we can learn, the epidemic seized its victim while in Cairo on Thursday last, at which place Mrs. Rush visited for the purpose of getting some teeth extracted. She was taken sick about midnight on Thursday, and died in twenty-four hours afterwards.
Source: "Muddy Roots" Mississippi County Genealogical Society Volume 10, Number 2, June 1992.
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