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The Galveston Daily News
Friday, 16 February, 1877

         Chambers County
         
         The Houston Age says: Passengers who came to the city
       yesterday over the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, brought
       further details of the terrible ravages of the small-pox
       in Chambers county. Since the last report, seven deaths
       had occurred on Double bayou, and two others were reported
       dying. Among the dead is Mrs. BARROW, whose husband,
       BENJAMIN BARROW, died last week. Their daughter, Miss
       OCIDA, has passed the worst stage of the disease and will
       recover. There had been 21 deaths of white people and twice
       that many of negroes - the precise number not known. This
       would sum up the fearful total of sixty victims to the
       epidemic. Young SOLOMON BARROW has lost both of his children.
       All the older members of the MIDDLETON family are dead.
       
       [Transcriber's Note: Mrs. Ben. Barrow was Sarah Ann Middleton
       Barrow. Her husband also died the same month. Their sons,
       OVERTON BARROW, and ROBERT JETT BARROW both died on Jan 28, 1877.
       The two children of SOLOMON BARROW were ROBERT A  and EUGENIA L.
       who both died Feb 5, 1877.
       
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