Tuberculosis/Consumption
This page last updated March 11, 2010
While tuberculosis isn't what we would normally consider an acute disease such as diptheria; it was just as infectious and contagious. Tuburculosis is an infectious disease that attacks the lungs. The germs that cause tuberculosis are spread through the air. Tuberculosis can be spread by an infected person to another person by coughing, laughing, sneezing, singing, and talking. Repeated contact is unusually required for infection. Tuberculosis is usually spread between family members, close friends, and people who work or live together. Tuberculosis is spread most easily in closed spaces over a long period of time.
More efforts were probably made to combat tuberculosis and to separate its sufferers from the public then with the other diseases. It did however kill quite frequently and spread rampantly in the days when people stayed more to the family and in their homes. If one member had it, usually more did. It was a common belief that a house that had had tuberculosis in it was no longer fit to live in. Many of these homes were burned down. A family would always burn the clothing/bedding of a person who had died from this disease. Consumption is an archaic term used to apply to tuberculosis, as the lungs are "consumed". People can even today harbor the tuberculosis germ in their blood, but never suffer from the disease; they cannot however donate blood under any circumstances.
The listings below show: Name/Date/Area/Submitter
Name
Date of Death
Town/Twp
County
Submitted by
Flora LOCKHART
10-24-1918
Harrison twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Margaret A. ALBERSON
May 1850
Montgomery twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Sarah K. MODRELL
Mar 1850
Montgomery twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Elizabeth BULL
Oct 1850
Montgomery twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Martha A. VARVIL
June 1850
Montgomery twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Elizabeth C. PAYNE
Mar 1850
Montgomery twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
William M. MODRELL
Feb 1850
Wayne twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Frederick SAPP
Mar 1850
Lafayette twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Rachel CASH
Oct1850
Marion twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Greenup BRIANT
Feb 1850
Adams twp
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
Ellen K. GLASSCOCK
Jan 1850
Madison twp
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
Simon JOHNSON
Aug 1850
Madison twp
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
Elizabeth C. LEACH
Oct 1850
unknown
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
Archibald WHEELER
Dec 1850
Adams twp
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
John JONES
2-1-1892
Quincy
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Bessie Griffith
9-1-1906
Coal City
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Will NEILL
2-8-1892
Clay twp
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Sarah STULTZ
2-20-1880
Freedom
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Mrs. Sallie A. JOHNSON
2-13-1880
Freedom
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
John CHAMBERS
2-16-1880
Spencer
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Robert ROLLINS
1-10-1917
unknown
PUTNAM
Debbie Jennings
Stella ALLRED
7-14-1919
Martinsville
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
Emory Franklin BAIN
7-22-1941
Mooresville
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings
David SKINNER
5-31-1921
Spencer
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Minnie QUERRY
9-2-1926
unknown
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Isom McGUIRE
10-26-1923
Spencer
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Thomas J. BROWN
1-5-1911
Patricksburg
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Charles FRANKLIN
9-4-1918
Patricksburg
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Carrie (Willard) NORRIS
3-1-1889
Arney
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
William Roy NORRIS
3-5-1895
Arney
OWEN
Debbie Jennings
Henry Burnet RAMSDELL
2-3-1858
Martinsville
MORGAN
Debbie Jennings