Diseases Our Ancestors Died From
Might be useful if ancestors died in these places/years:
Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease
1657 / Boston / Measles
1687 / Boston / Measles
1690 / New York / Yellow Fever
1713 / Boston / Measles
1729 / Boston / Measles
1732-1733 / Worldwide / Influenza
1738 / South Carolina / Smallpox
1739-1740 / Boston / Measles
1747 / Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina / Smallpox
1759 / North America / Measles
1761 / North America and West Indies / Influenza
1772 / North America / Measles
1775 / North America (especially in North East) / Unknown
1775-1776 / Worldwide / Influenza
1783 / Dover, Delaware (was extremely fatal) / Bilious Disorder
1788 / Philadelphia and New York / Measles
1793 / Vermont / (a "putrid" fever) and Influenza
1793 / Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks) / Influenza
1793 / Philadelphia / Yellow Fever
1793 / Harrisburg, PA (many unexplained deaths) / Unknown
1793 / Middletown, Pennsylvania (many mysterious deaths) / Unknown
1794 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
1796-1797 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
1798 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the worst) / Yellow Fever
1803 / New York / Yellow Fever
1820-1823 / Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River & spread) / "Fever"
1831-1832 / Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) / Asiatic
Cholera
1832 / New York and other major cities / Cholera
1833 / Columbus, Ohio / Cholera
1833-34 / Kentucky / Cholera
1834 / New York City, New York / Cholera
1837 / Philadelphia / Typhus
1841 / Nationwide (especially severe in the South) / Yellow Fever
1847 / New Orleans / Yellow Fever
1847-1848 / Worldwide / Influenza
1848-1849 / North America / Cholera
1849 / New York / Cholera
1850 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever
1850-1851 / North America / Influenza
1851 / Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri / Cholera
1852 / Nationwide (New Orleans 8,000 died that summer) / Yellow Fever
1855 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever
1857-1859 / Worldwide (one of the largest epidemics) / Influenza
1860-1861 / Pennsylvania / Smallpox
1865-1873 / Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Memphis, Washington DC / A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox,
Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Influenza
1873-1875 / North America & Europe / Influenza
1878 / New Orleans (last great epidemic) / Yellow Fever
1885 / Plymouth, Pennsylvania / Typhoid
1886 / Jacksonville, Florida / Yellow Fever
1918 / Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in WWI from
this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with
80% death rate in some camps. / Influenza or Spanish Flu