Iowa Old Press

Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
June 5, 1851

    Among the deaths from Cholera on the Pride of the West, which was at Quarantine on Monday, we notice that of STEPHEN MILTON, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
June 26, 1851

Cholera
From the Mt. Pleasant Observer
    The following deaths have occurred west of Mt. Pleasant from this disease since our last issue, to wit:
Robert Woodworth, near Rome.
The wife and son of Thos. Smith, near Rome.
Geo. Rice and daughter, 2 miles west of Mt. Pleasant.
Miss Penelope Glover, 1 mile west of Mt. Pleasant.
Marion Park, 4 miles west of Mt. Pleasant.
    The whole number of deaths by cholera since it broke out (June 4th,) is twenty-two.
    The last death took place on the 16th. Mrs. Kean was considered past recovery on Sabbath last but is now on the mend and will in all probability get well. The Rev. John Harris is the only individual in Mt. Pleasant that has been attacked with the past week- he is on the mend.
    Mrs. Scott at Rome and Mrs. Berry near Rome died on the 16th, but not with cholera, if we have been rightly informed.
    It is now the general opinion that the epidemic has ceased its ravages for the present. We hope its last victim has fallen and that the citizens of our county will again be blest with health. Already the excitement occasioned by the disease has died away, but it is painful, indeed, to reflect upon the ruin that has been wrought. We have lost a number of our best and most enterprising citizens.