Virginia Free Press - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

The Cholera.— This desolating scourge, we are sorry to say, appears to be augmenting its ravages in our county. Since our last publication, several valuable citizens of Shepherdstown have fallen victims to the malignant disease. Many […]

August 8, 1833

8 Aug 1833

Wheldon, Cholera or Fable?

[COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Gallaher: — We have observed in the “Intelligencer and Alexandria Gazette,” of this week, a paragraph extracted from the “Argus,” printed in Easton, Pa., detailing a “remarkable circumstance,” based on the high authority of […]

May 2, 1833

2 May 1833

Cholera in Ireland.

“Never” says a letter from Limerick of the 14th of March, “was there anything like the state of the surrounding country. The Cholera has spread all around. The Rev. Mr. Noonan, Curate of Knockany, was here […]

December 13, 1832

13 Dec 1832

Canal Work Resumes

We are much gratified to find that the work upon the Canal has been resumed with great vigor since the disappearance of the Cholera. — Many hundred hands are busily engaged near Harpers-Ferry, and every thing […]

November 1, 1832

1 Nov 1832

Turnpike Work

A deep feeling of melancholy came over us, a few days ago, as we passed along the turnpike between this place and Harpers-Ferry. In one part of the road, where, six weeks since, about thirty hands […]

November 1, 1832

1 Nov 1832

Dead – Consort of Michael Walsh

Died,On Thursday morning last, in the 11th year of her age, Miss Hannah A. daughter of Mr. John Moore, of this county.On Wednesday, the 24th ult., Mrs. Nennis, of Halltown.On Friday last, Mrs. Walsh, wife of […]

October 25, 1832

25 Oct 1832

Hagerstown ravaged, Cholera.

THE CHOLERA.The angel of death has been busy among us during the past week. The pestilence that “walketh in darkness and wasteth in noon-day,” has left sad mementoes of its visitation. The cholera has numbered several […]

October 11, 1832

11 Oct 1832

Halltown Workmen Death

On the same day [Saturday last], in this town, Mr. John Still, one of the workmen from Halltown, who had recovered from cholera, but whose disease assumed a typhoid character.

October 4, 1832

4 Oct 1832

Halltown Cholera

AWFUL MORTALITY.It becomes our duty this day to make a most appalling record of “Death’s Doings,” in our neighborhood. The desolating malady which has swept over our country, has no where been more fatal in its […]

September 13, 1832

13 Sep 1832

Jeff Co. Cholera Appears

We are well aware of the excitement which the occurrence of a few cases of Cholera will ere-[?]te in our neighborhood, and of the thousand rumors likely to grow out of them, and therefore feel it […]

September 6, 1832

6 Sep 1832

Lawrence Murphy, death.

In this town [Charles Town], on Friday morning last, of an illness of 36 hours, Mr. Lawrence Murphy, a native of Ireland, aged about 27 years. He was a stranger here, and had been engaged upon […]

August 16, 1832

16 Aug 1832

Large Canal Force in Shepherdstown

We understand that a pretty large force is now employed upon the line of the Canal near Shepherdstown; and contractors will be given out, during the present month, for other portions of the work, seven miles […]

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