Franklin County NcArchives News.....Small Pox in Harris TWP February 21, 1873
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Franklin Courier February 21, 1873
In Nov 1872, Mr John Doyle of TN arrived in Harris TWP, and after visiting a few 
of his old kindred and friends he domiciled on Wednesday, 4 Dec with Reuben 
Rogers (Mrs Rogers being his sister) being quite sick. It was discovered that he 
had the smallpox, combined with bloody dysentery and he died Saturday, 7 Dec. 
Reuben Rogers had held a corn shucking the day after Mr Doyle arrived at his 
house, and there were present individuals from the families of Mr Wilson Bolton, 
Andrew Jackson and Dorson Geans, and nearly every person who came in to contact 
with him took the disease and it soon spread to the above named families. Over 
the next eight weeks 28 cases of small pox was treated: 6 cases at Boltons, 10 
at Rogers, 4 at Jacksons, and 8 at Geans. Of those diseased 10 died: 1 at 
Boltons, 4 at Rogers, 1 at Jacksons and 4 at Geans to wit: Mr Reuben Rogers, his 
wife and son Absalom and daughter Arabella, Mrs Dorsey Geans, her son Norfleet 
and daughters Josephone and Mary, John Jackson and George W Dickerson a young 
gentleman at Boltons. The disease was considered no longer a threat ("entirely 
subsided") and the doctor (who had been quarentined from Louisburg and during 
the time of quarentine resided with Mr Wilson Bolton) was allowed to return to 
his home in Louisburg on Friday, 14 Feb 1873.

Additional Comments:
This article was written by the doctor, William M Crenshaw, to the citizens of 
Franklin County and published in the county newspaper. 

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