Part 4, Note 51

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Texas Monument, March 10, 1852, March 17, 1852, March 24, 1852, March 31, 1852, April 7, 1852, April 14, 1852, April 21, 1852, June 2, 1852. The Monument dutifully reminded its readers that the river was very low on September 24, 1851, October 8, 1851, January 14, 1852, and March 3, 1852. After the flood receded, there was an outbreak of disease that caused many fatalities. The settlers along the river blamed the flood for the disease (see Wesley Smith, A Family History and Fifty-two Years of Preacher Life in Mississippi and Texas (Nashville: University Press Co., 1898), p. 131).