Typhoid or Typhoid Fever
This page last updated March 11, 2010
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
William NORRIS
Fall of 1865
unknown
OWEN
unknown