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Showing posts with label 1882. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1882. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

April 7, 1882 - Smallpox Outbreak, Conemaugh Borough Man Goes Nuts & East Conemaugh Attack - Cambria Freeman

MIss Gussie Morgan daughter of John Morgan dies of smallpox in Johnstown.

David Londregan - Conemaugh Borough

Young window woman named Arthur lives with her father a Mr. Varner - attacked in East Conemaugh.

 

Monday, March 9, 2026

February & March 1882 - Undertakers Refuse to Bury a Dead Child - So Smallpox Nurse does it herself, Awful Hot Cinder Accident at Hinckston Run & A Terrible Case of St. Vitus Dance - Sent to Poor House - Cambria Freeman

Undertakers Refuse Burial - instead Miss Zoler a nurse at the Johnstown Smallpox Hospital buried the dead child herself. Father was Policeman Ellsworth of Cambria City. 

Patrick Moran of Minersville burned by hot cinders along Hinckston Run.

German named Birke had Maggie Hoffman arrested and accused of stealing from him. 


Elizabeth Berger from Germany - case of St. Vitus Dance sent to Poor House to recover by her brother.She'd worked in the home of John Malor of Coal Street - Conemaugh Borough.