Schley County GaArchives News.....Measles Epidemic 1886 July 6, 1886
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The Weekly Telegraph July 6, 1886
Schley County Enterprise:  In and around Tazewell and the upper part ot this 
county within a radius of eight by fifteen miles in hitherto healthy section 
near forty persons have died within the last six or eight weeks.  It is mostly 
children who have had the measles followed by dysentery.  The doctors could do 
but little with it.  Mr. J.N. Souter, ten miles from Ellaville, and four out 
of five childrenare dead, leaving a widow and one child.


Additional Comments:
All 5 Souters are buried at Concord Methodist Church cemetery.

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