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- Hannah E., child of John Knox and Polly B. This date is only 20 days after the 9 August 1845 Marriage Bond for her older brother, Robert J. Wilson Knox's marriage to Martha N. Jetton. Also, note that the timing of her death makes it very likely that she died in the 1845 Erysipelas Epidemic described by Rev. Sommerville account below. This epidemic also took the lives of her Uncle Dr. Carnes Henderson Robison [brother of Mary B. Robison Knox], and his wife, Mary Abigail Alexander, daughter of William Bain Alexander and Violet Davidson.
Erysipelas (Greek - red skin) is an acute streptococcusbacterial infection of the dermis, resulting in inflammation and characteristically extending into underlying fat tissue.
(Source: Peggy Bruckner)
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