James Ferguson
Born
March 24, 1828
Died
June 5, 1851
Buried
Ferguson Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 21 Feb
2017.
James
Ferguson was a son of Hamlet Ferguson, who died in 1840 and is also buried in
Ferguson Cemetery. James was living with his brother, Robert, in Livingston County in 1850.[1]
No record,
thus far, has been found that tells us what took the life of this young man,
who had barely reached his maturity, but we do know that cholera took many
lives in western Kentucky during June of 1851. The Louisville Courier of June 18th reported the
following about the cholera: "At Smithland there were three or four deaths last week. At Owensboro there have been some three or four deaths during the
past few days."[2] The Louisville Courier also reported that "the cholera has been prevailing
with some severity at Princeton."[3]
[1]
1850 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Roll M432_210, p. 384A, image 459,
Ancestry.com.
[2] Daily American Telegraph of Washington, District
of Columbia, 24 June 1851, p. 2, Newspapers.com.
[3]
The Louisville Daily Courier 11 June
1851, p. 3, Newspapers.com.
No comments:
Post a Comment