Typhoid or Typhoid Fever

This page last updated November 10, 2007

Typhoid is caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria from food or water. Salmonella Typhi lives only in humans. Persons with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. In addition, a small number of persons, called carriers , recover from typhoid fever but continue to carry the bacteria. Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their feces. You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage.

Many of our ancestors died during the Civil War due to this diease. Given the circumstances that they fought under, it is understandable how this disease may have easily been transmitted. Typhoid however was not limited simply to persons in war zones; before sanitation regulations came everyone was at risk from any of the water supplies.

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

Name	Date of Death	Town/Twp	County	Submitted by
Columbia CARTER	3-20-1865	Taylor twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Freeborn DUNKIN	12-25-1861	Baltimore, MD		Debbie Jennings
Lillie L. WARTHEN	9-25-1899	Ray twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Wickliff MASON	11-21-1889	Greencastle twp	PUTNAM	Debbie Jennings
Asa BALLARD	1-27-1883	Mooresville	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
James GASTON	Oct 1850	Montgomery twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Nancy WHEELER	March 1850	Harrison twp	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Annie HADLEY	August 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Catherine FIELDS	Oct 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Frederick NEWLEY	Jan 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
William PARK	August 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
William SHOVER	March 1850	Madison twp	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Cynthia (THOMPSON) DITTEMORE	11-26-1904	Waverly	MORGAN	Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Hyram MURPHY	Sept 28 1892	Gosport	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Alfred WILLIAMS	9-4-1896	unknown	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Nathan WOOD	7-1-1886	unknown	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
James SHELBURN	8-31-1888	unknown	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Elsa CASIDA	10-13-1908	Morgan	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Ralph CASIDA	9-3-1908	Morgan	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Mrs. James SCOTT	December 1880	Spencer	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Harold WOOD	10-28-1932	Spencer	OWEN	Debbie Jennings
Barbara Ella (Christian) ELLIS	9-28-1878	Spencer	OWEN	Elaine Foulger