The fatality rate was so high that sometimes half the people in a frontier settlement might die of milk sickness.
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Nancy Lincoln died from milk sickness at the Little Pigeon Creek Community in Spencer County when Abraham was aged 9.
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Brooner had also been ill with milk sickness, was nursed by Nancy Lincoln, and died two weeks before on September 18.
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The Sparrows died in September 1818 of milk sickness, weeks later in early October Nancy also died of the poisoned milk.
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In October 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln contracted milk sickness by drinking milk of a cow that had eaten the white snakeroot plant.
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A local legend relates its name to a woman named " Jane " who died of milk sickness while crossing the mountain.
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In early March 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west to Illinois, a non-slaveholding state.
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Milk sickness was first described in writing by a European American in 1809, when Dr . Thomas Barbee of Bourbon County, Kentucky, detailed its symptoms.
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On October 5, 1818, Nancy Lincoln died of milk sickness, leaving eleven-year-old Sarah " Sally " Bush Johnston, a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with three children of her own.
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"' Tremetone "'is a chemical compound found in "'tremetol "', a toxin mixture from snakeroot ( " Ageratina altissima " ) that causes milk sickness in humans and trembles in livestock.
