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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 193
Philip Kunts John Schoflfer"
A. Kees Peter Roth
Mrs. Bessa Mrs. G. Booron
Child of R. Culbuts Mrs. Littleton
Geo. Collins (child) B. Brown
Stranger and child Child of Blosier's
Emma Dutton B. Myers
C. Essays Philip Lang
Child of W. Stokes
Some of the early settlers remember vividly the cholera year of 1849.
Mrs. Angeline Miller says:
"I AA'as born in 1830, and will be 85 in April, and came here in 1833.
We first lived in a log house on Water Street, and then over a blacksmith
shop. There Avere many Indians here then. I do not remember
the name of the tribe, but they Avore rings in their noses. They had tents
where the Avine cellars are noAV situated in the Avest end of the city. I
lived on Market Street in 1849. The people died like flies. They hauled
off the dead on drays, three or four to a load. They buried over one
hundred in one trench about three coffins deep, with a few inches of dirt
on top. More than thirty died in one day. Many of the coffins were made
of unplaned boards, and they set them^n the cemetery and left them
unburied till the Aveather cooled off. The cholera filled up the old cemetery
in Avest end so that they ceased burying there after 1849. Many of
the bodies were moved to Oakland later. They began to remove the
tombstones Avhen the AA'ar broke out. One man took some of those tombstones
away and made sidewalks out of them. There Avas one grave left
there, a vault that Avas there in the summer of 1914, and the headstone sat
beside it marking Avhere a colored man Avas buried. My cousin Margaret
Doerflinger died of the cholera.''
John W. Holland says:
"I AA'as born in 1824, and came to Sandusky in 1832. In the cholera
year of 1849 every day looked like Sunday. We went to the country to
live for tAvo Aveeks, then Ave came back and found the cholera as bad as
when Ave left. This was in July of 1849. Thirty-three died in one day.
The coffins Avere made at the shops of the Sandusky, Mansfield & NeAvark
Railroad Company, which is UOAV the B. & 0., by a man named Lathrop.
He lived on Adams Street, across the street from me. You could buy
nothing to eat because the grocery stores Avere not open. Foster Follett
was then Mayor. A man named, Hathaway went away and left his
grocery store and Foster Follett forced the store open and placed a man
in charge to sell the goods and settled Avith Hathaway Avhen he came
back. At this time the toAvn extended south as far as Jefferson Street,
but one stone house Avas all there was south of Adams Street,-and that
is still standing on the south side of Jefferson Street. On the west the
toAvn was bounded by Camp Street, and on the east the town extended
nearly to the bay. East Market Street Avas an aristocratic section of the
town till the S. M. & N. Railroad came through. They buried about 75
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