A report of cholera deaths from The Gallatin Tennessee Union (Sumner Co., TN) made it into the New York Evening Post on 10 August 1835. This may be of interest to researchers who have found diminished households between the 1830 Census and 1840 Census.
“The cholera has been more fatal in the upper part of Wilson county and the lower part of Smith, than almost any part of the US… 50 cases have proved fatal in the course of a few weeks in the neighborhood of Cainsville.” The report also includes names of some of the families who were struck by the disease, “Mrs. Hearn, N E of Lebanon, had 3 deaths in her house in one day and 2 the next.” That’s 5 members of one family!
Cholera was also in Sumner Co. “It has reached our own county at the S E corner. Mr. Puryear, Mrs. Clardy and a negro man belonging to James Walton have fallen victims.”
