Here is an excellent site for epidemics and sicknesses.  Paul
http://www.geisheimer.org/info/gene/disechar.htm
  The years of Epidemics of then it listed what was the epidemic for that year
  was. So you would have an idea of what killed several in a family possibly at
  that time.

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