Archive for October 2011
Elizabeth Cromartie
Elizabeth Cromartie, daughter of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane, was born October 5, 1769 in Bladen County, North Carolina. In 1790 she married James Shaw, who was born in 1769 in Scotland on the Isle of Arran. He was the son of William Shaw and Mary McCurdie, who were born on the Isle of Arran…
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Smallpox was a highly contagious, often fatal, disease caused by the variola virus. Over five hundred million people died from it during the twentieth century. Due to efforts of the World Health Organization, the disease was eradicated with no cases documented since 1977. The only known stocks of the organisms are at the CDC in…
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