Tuberculosis/Consumption

This page last updated November 10, 2007

While tuberculosis isn't what we would normally consider an acute disease such as diptheria; it was just as infectious and contagious. Tuburculosis is an infectious disease that attacks the lungs. The germs that cause tuberculosis are spread through the air. Tuberculosis can be spread by an infected person to another person by coughing, laughing, sneezing, singing, and talking. Repeated contact is unusually required for infection. Tuberculosis is usually spread between family members, close friends, and people who work or live together. Tuberculosis is spread most easily in closed spaces over a long period of time.

More efforts were probably made to combat tuberculosis and to separate its sufferers from the public then with the other diseases. It did however kill quite frequently and spread rampantly in the days when people stayed more to the family and in their homes. If one member had it, usually more did. It was a common belief that a house that had had tuberculosis in it was no longer fit to live in. Many of these homes were burned down. A family would always burn the clothing/bedding of a person who had died from this disease. Consumption is an archaic term used to apply to tuberculosis, as the lungs are "consumed". People can even today harbor the tuberculosis germ in their blood, but never suffer from the disease; they cannot however donate blood under any circumstances.

The listings below show: Name/Date/Area/Submitter

Name	Date of Death	Town/Twp	County	Submitted by
Flora LOCKHART	10-24-1918	Harrison twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Margaret A. ALBERSON	May 1850	Montgomery twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Sarah K. MODRELL	Mar 1850	Montgomery twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Elizabeth BULL	Oct 1850	Montgomery twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Martha A. VARVIL	June 1850	Montgomery twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Elizabeth C. PAYNE	Mar 1850	Montgomery twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
William M. MODRELL	Feb 1850	Wayne twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Frederick SAPP	Mar 1850	Lafayette twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Rachel CASH	Oct1850	Marion twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Greenup BRIANT	Feb 1850	Adams twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Ellen K. GLASSCOCK	Jan 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Simon JOHNSON	Aug 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Elizabeth C. LEACH	Oct 1850	unknown	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Archibald WHEELER	Dec 1850	Adams twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
John JONES	2-1-1892	Quincy	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Bessie Griffith	9-1-1906	Coal City	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Will NEILL	2-8-1892	Clay twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Sarah STULTZ	2-20-1880	Freedom	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Sallie A. JOHNSON	2-13-1880	Freedom	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
John CHAMBERS	2-16-1880	Spencer	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Robert ROLLINS	1-10-1917	unknown	PUTNAM	Debbie Jennings
Stella ALLRED	7-14-1919	Martinsville	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Emory Franklin BAIN	7-22-1941	Mooresville	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
David SKINNER	5-31-1921	Spencer	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Minnie QUERRY	9-2-1926	unknown	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Isom McGUIRE	10-26-1923	Spencer	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Thomas J. BROWN	1-5-1911	Patricksburg	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Charles FRANKLIN	9-4-1918	Patricksburg	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Carrie (Willard) NORRIS	3-1-1889	Arney	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
William Roy NORRIS	3-5-1895	Arney	OWEN	Debbie Jennings