Ashe-Wilkes County NcArchives News.....Small Pox in Ashe and Wilkes March 25, 1836 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com December 17, 2007, 3:39 pm March 25, 1836, Charlotte Journal March 25, 1836 Deaths in Ashe last week two: MRS. TEAGUE, widow of ISAAC TEAGUE, and JOHN TEAGUS, her son. No new cases reported; most of those heretofore reported as dangerously afflicted, are now convalescent -- some three or four yet dangerously ill. Sanguine hopes are entertained that the contagion is now checked in Ashe. In Wilkes there is at present no dangeroous case -- two cases only having yet occurred there (except those famillies in the neighborhood of the allicted in Ashe. Those two cases were on Moravian Creek, six or seven miles from Wilkesboro. The total number of deaths is eleven -- ten being inhabitants of Ashe and one in Wilkes near the Ashe line. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/ashe/newspapers/smallpox63nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb