Some of the skeletal remains found adjacent to the oldest cemetery in Montgomery yesterday are most likely victims of a yellow fever outbreak about the time of the founding of the city, in the 1820's. But this morning's Montgomery Advertiser reports that at least a couple of the remains date to 1976. It's easy to envision a mass grave being used to dispose of yellow fever victims in 1820, but in 1976? Would even paupers have been buried in unmarked graves that recently?
Before doctors learned to control and treat it, yellow fever killed an Alabama Secretary of State and at least two legislators.
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Some of the skeletal remains found adjacent to the oldest cemetery in Montgomery yesterday are most likely victims of a yellow fever outbreak about the time of the founding of the city, in the 1820's. But this morning's Montgomery Advertiser reports that at least a couple of the remains date to 1976. It's easy to envision a mass grave being used to dispose of yellow fever victims in 1820, but in 1976? Would even paupers have been buried in unmarked graves that recently?
Before doctors learned to control and treat it, yellow fever killed an Alabama Secretary of State and at least two legislators.
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Reckon it was the SoS and the legislators' corpses? *LOL*
ReplyDeleteSo are we gonna' have a paper trail? It's a grave whodunit!
(Yeah, it's not punny!)