***ASSUMMED*** Burial as a victim of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
A daily list by date and name began August 16th and ran to November 6th - and then followed another list, titled:
List of Colored
Joe. Pullum, Wiley Bennett, Dick Yancy, Pauline Upshaw, child of Harison Adkins, Bob. Dodds, son of Dick Bennett, Steve Redick, Emily Watson, Phil. Matison, Louis Woodson, son of A. Devine, Henry Landrum, Nelson Titus, Henry Maddox, Eliza Freeman, Tom Cross, wife of Phil. Matison.
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
A daily list by date and name began August 16th and ran to November 6th - and then followed another list, titled:
List of Colored
Joe. Pullum, Wiley Bennett, Dick Yancy, Pauline Upshaw, child of Harison Adkins, Bob. Dodds, son of Dick Bennett, Steve Redick, Emily Watson, Phil. Matison, Louis Woodson, son of A. Devine, Henry Landrum, Nelson Titus, Henry Maddox, Eliza Freeman, Tom Cross, wife of Phil. Matison.
***ASSUMMED*** Burial as a victim of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
A daily list by date and name began August 16th and ran to November 6th - and then followed another list, titled:
List of Colored
Joe. Pullum, Wiley Bennett, Dick Yancy, Pauline Upshaw, child of Harison Adkins, Bob. Dodds, son of Dick Bennett, Steve Redick, Emily Watson, Phil. Matison, Louis Woodson, son of A. Devine, Henry Landrum, Nelson Titus, Henry Maddox, Eliza Freeman, Tom Cross, wife of Phil. Matison.
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
----------
The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
A daily list by date and name began August 16th and ran to November 6th - and then followed another list, titled:
List of Colored
Joe. Pullum, Wiley Bennett, Dick Yancy, Pauline Upshaw, child of Harison Adkins, Bob. Dodds, son of Dick Bennett, Steve Redick, Emily Watson, Phil. Matison, Louis Woodson, son of A. Devine, Henry Landrum, Nelson Titus, Henry Maddox, Eliza Freeman, Tom Cross, wife of Phil. Matison.
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