Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 2, Number 3, September 1992 Page: 146
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Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal
Saturday, the 25th. Another death at the old hotel, south side of the public
square and one just without the limits of the corporation, northwest of the town; the
latter a patient of mine. This case was a German widow lady aged thirty-five years; was
attacked at her residence, corner of Preston and Live Oak streets, on the morning of the
20th, with a severe chill, attended with copious vomiting of some undigested food,
succeeded by a paroxysm of fever, that passed off with free perspiration in the course
of the day. Prescribed ordinary treatment for an intermittent fever. Chill and fever
returned in about twenty-four hours. Having evacuated the stomach and bowels very
thoroughly, increased the dose of quinine, but without avail. The chill again occurred
at its regular period, and the succeeding fever was attended with nausea and some
vomiting, but subsided with a copious perspiration, as usual in intermittent. Prescribed
the turpentine emulsion, with spts. nitre and tr. aconite.
23d. Patient is free from fever, but stomach very irritable. Directed a blister,
and continued the turpentine. Patient having been deserted by her kindred, was removed
out of the corporation.
24th. No changes; treatment continued, with ice freely.
25th. Patient much worse; vomits frequently water and mucus; urine
suppressed; refuses medicine.
Dr. S. A. Towsey having arrived on the 2 o'clock train, I invited him to see
this lady with me. He did not hesitate to pronounce it yellow fever, though he sanctioned
my treatment, suggesting as a supplement to it a turpentine "stupe" over the lower
portion of the bowels. She died at 11 o'clock P.M. without jaundice before or after her
death.1'
Mercury 820 Fahrenheit; wind northeast, and misting rain.
On Monday, the 27th, two deaths were reported, one of which a negro,
occurred at a boarding house on Bowie between Walnut and Spring streets; and the
other, a child, on Spring street, between Front and Travis. Did not see either of them.
No other deaths occurred in town until Thursday, the 30th, notwithstanding we had a
pretty sharp norther and cloudy, drizzling weather most of the time.'7
she should have been listed as her father's heir. However, in Andrew J. Bonds' probate file (see Probate File
732, Office of the County Clerk, Colorado County, Texas), Barnard himself, in applying for letters of
administration states that Bonds died "intestate leaving no wife or children." If Barnard's statement can be
taken at face value, then the A. J. Bonds who died of yellow fever must not have been his wife's father, for
his wife was still alive at the time he made the statement. This may mean either that the Andrew J. Bonds
of the censuses was not the same man as the A. J. Bonds who died of yellow fever, or that Martha A. Bonds,
despite her position in his household, was not the daughter of Andrew J. Bonds.
16 Editor's note: The German widow may have been Elizabeth Henry, whose surname had been
Anglicized from "Heinrich." She was not only married to a German, George Henry, but was a German by birth,
being the daughter of John Emmel. She is known to have died in the epidemic, and, according to The Fayette
County New Era of November 7, 1873, on the same date as Dr. Harrison's German widow, October 25.
Further, she was approximately the correct age (the 1850 census says that she was 17, the 1860 that she
was 25, making her, in 1873, about 38 or 40), and she was a widow (the probate file for her husband, Probate
File 61 1, Office of the County Clerk, Colorado County, Texas, contains documents dated February 1870 and
a deed dated October 3, 1870 in Deed Book O, page 743, Office of the County Clerk, Colorado County, Texas,
describes her as "Elizabeth Henry, widow of George Henry Decd"). Only her apparent address is at variance
with Dr. Harrison's report. The land she purchased in the above referenced deed was the only land she is
known to have owned in Columbus. It was at the corner of Dewees and Live Oak, one block north of Preston
and Live Oak.
17 Editor's note: The black man was apparently LaFayette Scott, who is described as such in the
report of his death in The Fayette County New Era of November 7, 1873. The child was the otherwise
unidentified son of Joseph P. Harris, whose death is also recorded in the same issue of The Fayette County
New Era.146
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