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Z 1057.000
"YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1867 AT HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS" MANUSCRIPT

1867

Xerox copy of a manuscript (typescript) narrative of the yellow fever epidemic at Huntsville, Texas, with letters written by Martha Ann Nolley Otey, and her sister, Eliza Thomas Nolley, to their family in Mississippi and to friends in Texas.

The unpublished manuscript was prepared by Henri Gerard Noordberg, Bridgton, Maine, and Huntsville, Texas from family letters, and newspaper clippings. Mrs. Otey succumbed to the yellow fever, and her sister married and remained in Texas.