• General Notes

  Transcript of portion of letter dated 12 March 1848 to Osburn Lamar Wilson from William Hancock (they are 2nd cousins):
  "Sickness -- this has been rageing through our country during the whole winter to an alarming extent in the character of Sypes fever -- Uncle Samuel Hancock his son George you recollect that took that ride with us to Palmyra & was so gentlemanly and Social & his Son James, Daughter Nancy, all died within the Short Space of 4. months of this fatal disease -- there were no other deaths in the connection -- yet there has been much Sickness.  I was attacked with this disease in July last, from which I never recovered till in Dec."
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  1850 U.S. Census, District 45, Harrison County, Indiana, p. 396
  Enumeration Date: 8 August 1850, p. 396 (Ancestry.com Images Online, image 218)
  189/189 Anna Hancock, 55, widow, $800, b. Tennessee [widow of Samuel]
  Mary A. Hancock, 20, b. Indiana
  John Strange Hancock, 18, student farmer, b. Indiana
  Catharine Hancock, 15, b. Indiana
  Samuel Wesley Hancock, 12, b. Indiana
  Sarah J.W. Golesbery, 2, b. Indiana [daughter of Nancy Jane Hancock and Robert Goldsberry]

Details of Francis Anna's family with Samuel Hancock