DIED: Ann Elizabeth Lewis, wife of John R. Lewis (Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Missouri, July 10, 1849).
She perhaps died in the cholera epidemic, in which the city lost about one tenth of its population. The cholera inflicted its worst toll in late July with a weekly toll of 640, seven times the city's normal death rate. The July 18, 1849, Missouri Republican newspaper noted 88 burials that day — not by name, only grouped by cemetery. Cholera, a bacterial infection, can kill a healthy person within hours.
At St. Louis, after an illness of only a few hours, Mrs. Ann Eliza, wife of John R. Lewis, and daughter of Francis Price, Esq., of this city (New York Herald, New York, September 15, 1849).
She perhaps died in the cholera epidemic, in which the city lost about one tenth of its population. The cholera inflicted its worst toll in late July with a weekly toll of 640, seven times the city's normal death rate. The July 18, 1849, Missouri Republican newspaper noted 88 burials that day — not by name, only grouped by cemetery. Cholera, a bacterial infection, can kill a healthy person within hours.
At St. Louis, after an illness of only a few hours, Mrs. Ann Eliza, wife of John R. Lewis, and daughter of Francis Price, Esq., of this city (New York Herald, New York, September 15, 1849).
DIED: Ann Elizabeth Lewis, wife of John R. Lewis (Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Missouri, July 10, 1849).
She perhaps died in the cholera epidemic, in which the city lost about one tenth of its population. The cholera inflicted its worst toll in late July with a weekly toll of 640, seven times the city's normal death rate. The July 18, 1849, Missouri Republican newspaper noted 88 burials that day — not by name, only grouped by cemetery. Cholera, a bacterial infection, can kill a healthy person within hours.
At St. Louis, after an illness of only a few hours, Mrs. Ann Eliza, wife of John R. Lewis, and daughter of Francis Price, Esq., of this city (New York Herald, New York, September 15, 1849).
She perhaps died in the cholera epidemic, in which the city lost about one tenth of its population. The cholera inflicted its worst toll in late July with a weekly toll of 640, seven times the city's normal death rate. The July 18, 1849, Missouri Republican newspaper noted 88 burials that day — not by name, only grouped by cemetery. Cholera, a bacterial infection, can kill a healthy person within hours.
At St. Louis, after an illness of only a few hours, Mrs. Ann Eliza, wife of John R. Lewis, and daughter of Francis Price, Esq., of this city (New York Herald, New York, September 15, 1849).
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