Monday, February 22, 2016

Tombstone Tuesday: Lois GALLUP died of typhoid fever

Photo by Brian Zoldak, 2015, used with permission
Row #4, Grave #308-10-063, GPS 41.41679 N - 71.97170 W
(Transcript from Hale Survey) Recorded in the Hale as unable to read stone.
This is Gallup, Lois, daughter of Ben & Hannah, born 1756 and died Apr. 30, 1759 in her 3rd year
Lois GALLUP
These gravestones all in a row are all of the children of Benadam Gallup and his wife Hannah Avery who all died of Typhoid Fever  (from the CDC's Web site) within 10 years of each other. All information is from the 2009 Gallup genealogy page 93. This is gravestone #63.

Lois was the ninth child born to Benadam and Hannah. Born in 1756, she died on 30 Apr 1770 of typhoid fever at the age of three.

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