On July 24, 1849, to quiet rumors about a new epidemic of cholera in Tippecanoe County, The Wabash Atlas newspaper, Lafayette, Indiana, printed the following article with a list of burials during the month of July.

Submitted by Adina Watkins Dyer

Aggregate Interments-Progress of Cholera at Lafayette, &c.

"We are under obligation of Mr. Meek, one of the sextons of the burying grounds of this city, for the following list of persons who have died of cholera and other disease since the 3d of this month, about the time this dreaded disease first made its appearance amongst us.  It will found interesting to friends at a distance, serve as a suitable reference for the future, and contradict the erroneous reports abroad in the land, in relation to the fatality of the disease amongst us.  It has been reported that we are burying on a average from twelve to fifteen per day, which will be perceived, by official statements which follow, to be quite incorrect. Some days, the interments, from all diseases, may have reached the number reported, but no two days together will furnish grounds for any such an average, and certainly the sexton's report is to be strictly relied upon, for in no instance, we may reasonably suppose, has any one died, but what has been buried in some of our burying grounds, and a list kept, from which we get the following copy.  In some instances the names may be spelled wrong as they were rather badly written by the friends and relatives of the deceased, at the time of interment, but in most cases may be understood."

July 3d

John FRANBACH - infant - cholera infantum

Virginia HARIER - aged 4 years - cholera infantum

Thomas COCHRAN - aged 33 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

July 4th

Henry MOORE - aged 21 years, a native of Indiana - cholera

James TOTTEN - infant - cholera infantum

Malinda E. GODMAN - aged 5 years, 6 months, native of Lafayette - flux

July 5th

Betsy CROSS - aged 45 years - liver complaint

July 6th

John PETERMAN - aged 45 years, Lafayette - cholera

Dennis SULLIVAN'S infant - nativity of Lafayette - summer complaint

Mary Ann HOGAN'S infant - nativity of Lafayette - disease, diarrhea

July 7th

John WINEBRIMER - aged 28 years, a native of Ohio - cholera

July 8th

James M. FOSTER - aged 25 years - consumption

July 10th

Detiach DEVOY - aged 40 years, a native of New York - apoplexy

Margaret KEATING - aged 40 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Maria O'CONNERS - aged 10 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Ann FANERY - aged 30 years - a native of Ireland - cholera

Margaret Perkins NAPIER - aged 41 years, a native of New Brunswick - disease unknown

Sarah Ann WALKER - aged about 30 years - disease unknown - wife of General WALKER

July 11th

John READER - aged 30 years, a native of New York - cholera

James GRIFFEN - age unknown, a native of Ireland - cholera

Isaac PYKE - aged 38 years, a native of Pennsylvania - cholera

Catharine M'LAUGHLIN - aged 37 years - cholera

Lorenzo VANNATENBURGH - aged 8 months - summer complaint

Kate Brownlee M'LAUGHLIN - aged 16 months, a native of Lafayette - measles

July 12th

Mr. J. ROSSER'S infant - premature birth

James GOSHORN - aged 18 months, born in Lafayette - summer complaint

July 13th

Emily LOYD - aged 15 months - flux - infant daughter of John LOYD

Elias B. POWERS - aged 37 years, a native of Maine - cholera

William Henry ARNOLD - aged 16 months - summer complaint

July 14th

Henry SMITH - aged 28 years, a native of Holland - cholera

Thomas UNDERWOOD - aged about 60 years, from Philadelphia - cholera

Mary Ann FUMMELL - aged 1 year, a native of Pennsylvania - summer complaint

Anthony M'MAINS' infant - aged 9 months - cholera infantum

Mrs. COCHRAN - aged 24 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Peter A. BROWER - aged 36 years, of Buffalo, New York - cholera

Robert MANSFIELD - aged 43 years, a native of Ireland - sun struck

Colonel William E. RANK - aged about 35 years, a native of Pennsylvania - cholera

Mahitabel THOMPSON - aged 37 years, a native of Vermont - cholera

July 15th

Infant son of James MILLER - age unknown - disease unknown

Thomas H. SMITH - aged 3 1/2  years, a native of Holland - worms

Mary HINES - aged 24 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Ellen Johnston - aged 35 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Infant of Luther TOLLMAN - age unknown - disease unknown

July 17th

Janus Alexander BALL - aged 4 years, 10 months - flux

Catharine HAMPEL - aged 8 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Julius Q. PETTIT - aged 4 years - disease not mentioned

William STOHL - aged 26 years, a native of Germany - cholera

John H. SOMTON - aged 14 years, 4 months, a native of New London - cholera

Jerusha CASWELL - aged 2 years - quick consumption

Henra ASHBY - aged 1 year, 8 months - cholera

Benjamin ASHBA - aged 30 years, a native of Ohio - cholera

Clara HOUST - aged 25 years, a native of Germany - cholera

July 19th

Jacob P. WALLACE - aged 40 years, a native of Ohio - cholera

Cynthia WALLACE - wife of Jacob P. Wallace - cholera

James F. CLARK - aged 44 years, a native of Vermont - cholera

July 20th

John A. PETTIS - aged 21 years, of Ohio - cholera

James F. BROWN - aged 10 years, a native of Ohio - cholera

Elizabeth HAUVEMAN - aged 32 years, a native of Germany - cholera

Mary Jane BYAN - aged 31 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Joseph FAUST - infant - cholera

John SCHREIVER - aged 40 years, a native of Germany - cholera

Robert BAILEY - aged 24 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Uhlreig LAHR'S wife - aged 54 years, a native of Germany - cholera

Mrs. Bridget CARNIGAN - aged 25  years, a native of Ireland - cholera

July 21st

Frederick HILLIKER - cholera

James GREER - Mattman and T. HOASEMAN or HARRIMAN is all we can get

from three entries in pencil marks, on the sexton's book.

July 22nd

Morgan SMITHON - aged 5 years, a native of New London, Connecticut - cholera

Ann WHEATON - aged 23 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Elizabeth SMITH - aged 7 years, 6 months - cholera

Dan BYAN - aged 25 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

George CARDER - aged 49 years, a native of Virginia - cholera

John BLANCHFIELD - aged 40 years, a native of West Canada - cholera

Alonzo VANVALKENBURGH - aged 8 months - cholera infantum

Robert CUSHING - aged 50 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Ellen CUSHING - aged 23 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Richard CARNEY - aged 38 years, a native of Ireland - cholera

Sarah Francis HALLIDAY - aged 4 years - croup

July 23d

Sarah RUFFIN - infant - summer complaint

Ephraim ALLEN - aged 40 years, a native of New Jersey - cholera

Lore B. YALL - aged 2 years - flux

Washington PARKE - aged 3 years, 5 months - cholera

    "The success with which our physicians have treated the cholera for the last week or two, speaks well; as in almost every instance where they have had timely notice, the disease has been checked, and the patient entirely restored to health.  At least three-fifths of the cases attacked, have found relief, when a physician was immediately called."