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Margaret Ann Acheson

Birth
Guernsey County, Ohio, USA
Death
26 Jul 1854 (aged 1–2)
Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
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Margaret Ann Acheson was born in 1852 and died of cholera in the epidemic that hit Muscatine, Iowa in 1854 along with her father, David Ramsey Acheson, brother, William Glover Acheson and uncle & aunt, Humphrey & Betsey Acheson. Margaret "who was taken sick Monday morning but appeared to be recovering, took a relapse and died Wednesday" 26 July 1854.

"In Illinois the party separated. David Baird and most of his family stopped in Fulton (?) County. John and James with their families lived together in Mercer County. The Achesons did not stop but continued on their way, crossing the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa.

Here they were exposed to cholera and some of the party became ill. A kind-hearted woman who did not fear the disease, took them in and helped them care for the sick. The father, David Acheson, his brother, Humphrey, son, William, and Margaret, the youngest daughter, died. The aunt had much of the responsibility of nursing, for the mother was also dangerously ill. When the latter had recovered, and no new cases had developed for a time, someone remarked that the rest of the party seemed to be safe from the cholera. But that very evening, the aunt, Mrs. Humphrey Acheson spoke of a slight headache. By 11 she was seriously ill and before morning she had passed to her eternal home." Source: Baird Family History 1932
Margaret Ann Acheson was born in 1852 and died of cholera in the epidemic that hit Muscatine, Iowa in 1854 along with her father, David Ramsey Acheson, brother, William Glover Acheson and uncle & aunt, Humphrey & Betsey Acheson. Margaret "who was taken sick Monday morning but appeared to be recovering, took a relapse and died Wednesday" 26 July 1854.

"In Illinois the party separated. David Baird and most of his family stopped in Fulton (?) County. John and James with their families lived together in Mercer County. The Achesons did not stop but continued on their way, crossing the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa.

Here they were exposed to cholera and some of the party became ill. A kind-hearted woman who did not fear the disease, took them in and helped them care for the sick. The father, David Acheson, his brother, Humphrey, son, William, and Margaret, the youngest daughter, died. The aunt had much of the responsibility of nursing, for the mother was also dangerously ill. When the latter had recovered, and no new cases had developed for a time, someone remarked that the rest of the party seemed to be safe from the cholera. But that very evening, the aunt, Mrs. Humphrey Acheson spoke of a slight headache. By 11 she was seriously ill and before morning she had passed to her eternal home." Source: Baird Family History 1932

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