Notes:
Data source is Waynette Caldwell, e-mail alwaynet@winco.net (from a booklet by Martin L. Mumaw, Jr.)
Data source is the 1971 self published book by Richard Glenn Huffman [deceased], "George Muma Genealogy".
*** Do not know if this is the same person, but it is interesting that his wife died in a few months **
Source: INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [INMONROE] Smallpox
Bloomington (IN) Telephone, Feb 27, 1914, p. 4.
With five cases that are suspected to be smallpox in the northwest part of
the city, a smallpox scare in Bedford city seems probable, says the Bedford
Mail.
The cases that are under suspicion are in the homes of Rev. Shortridge and
Oliver Mumaw on West Fourth Street and in the Smith home at 5th and Lincoln.
Suspicion was first directed when a son of Rev. Shortridge was taken ill,
supposedly with the chickenpox. A local physician saw the boy and thought
the case in its early stages resembled chicken pox, voiced his suspicion
that there were symptoms of smallpox and notified City Health Officer
Voyles that the case was suspicious. The cases are quarantined.