Young children in the early 20th century died of many diseases we
don't think of as deadly today,
  including pneumonia and other respiratory diseases..

Mary Moyars-Johnson

On Jan 27, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Judith B. Gabor wrote:

> My grandmother lost 3 children in Roanoke Co - 1901, 1903, 1905.
> Each died
> at about 15-18 months.
>
> I saw the following a few years back:
>
> Infants who died in this era often succumbed to diphtheria.  Near
> to the
> Heart of God was written by Presbyterian pastor Cleland McAfee in
> 1902 upon

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