Catahoula County Louisiana Archives News.....Trinity Depopulated. March 25, 1850
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Portage Sentinel (Ravenna, OH) March 25, 1850
     We are pained to announce, (says the Natchez Free Trade of the 27th 
ult.,) the entire depopulation of the pleasant and thriving village of 
Trinity, in Louisiana, at the junction of the rivers Tensas, Black and 
Ouachita, thirty miles distant from Natchez.  That awful scourge, the 
Asiatic cholera, descended upon the inhabitants with a fatality almost 
unheard of.  Ten or twelve physicians resident there, or called in from the 
adjacent country, have not been able to save a patient scarcely, who had 
been taken sick.  Flight was the only safety for the well, and death only 
reigns in Trinity.  Mr. Snyder, formerly a resident of Natchez, kept a 
boarding house there with twenty-five or thirty boarders, all of whom, who 
did not escape, died.  Mr. Snyder staid and took care of them till the last 
one died, then descended to the mouth of Red river, and we are sorry to add 
that he too died, on the steamer Cincinnati, coming up to Natchez.

Additional Comments:
According to the 1850 Catahoula Mortality Schedule, 29 people were listed as 
Cholera deaths in the month of February, 1850 alone.  19 of the deaths were 
slaves.  Between June 1, 1849 and June 1, 1850, there were 47 people with 
the cause of death listed as cholera.  Wm. Snyder, a 38 year old Brick Mason 
from PA was among the listed deaths for February. The names of the dead 
listed around his entry who died in February:  Alford S. Bass, Reuben 
Thomas, James Heagan, John, Mary A. and George Weister and a male slave aged 
23.

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