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NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS:
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Source: Evening Post (New York, N.
Y.) Issue: 9699 Page: 2
Dated: Friday, September 20, 1833
HAGERSTOWN, (Md)) Sept. 12,
1833 - On Thursday night last, a person who had been
committed from the neigaborhood of Sharpsburg,
the day preceeding, was attacked with cholera, in
the jail of this county. He was removed to the
hospital without delay, and died on Tuesday, his name
Henry Romley. No other case occurred until
Saturday last, when two more persons were attacked, and
removed to the hospital - one an old man, name not
known, the other named Wm. Brewer. Brewer
died on Saturday night, and the old man on Sunday
morning. John Rogers was attacked in
prison, on Sunday morning and died same day. And a
runaway negro named George Pendleton was taken on
Sunday and died on Monday, in the hospital.
Joseph Philips and an old man named Moyers,
were liberated on Saturday - Moyers died in
Funkstown on Saturday, and Phillips in the
hospital on Wednesday morning. We have not heard
of any other deaths among those who were in jail when
the disease broke out, all of whom to the number of
about twenty, have been bailed and liberated. With
the exception of the cases already noticed and all
traceable to the jail, there has been but one other
death - that of Celia Cook, a coloured woman who
resided close to the jail. There is, we believe,
at present not a single case in the town or
neighborhood, both of which continues unusually healthy
for the season. Whole number of deaths from
Saturday to Wednesday 8.
(Found at Genealogy Bank - Transcribed by Sharon Wick |
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