Ballard County, Kentucky

Bits of History
NARRATIVE OF THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF 1873 IN THE UNITED STATES
43D CONGRESS, 2d Session, House of Representatives. Ex.Doc.No.95



See Ballard County, KY, Narrative most of the way down the page.

Go to
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ky/state/cholera/258_264.txt
to read how this outbreak began 1st in Paducah, McCracken Co. and may have come up the river on a steamboat from New Orleans, LA

Submitted by Kathleen Hill