Date of Death: 8 May 1852
Subject: Josiah Vanschoiack
Source: Savannah Sentinel, Saturday, May 15, 1852, p. 2
Cholera- We regret to learn that this dread contagion is again on the trail of the emigration, and that Mr. Vanschoiack from this county, with whole families of emigrants, on the route from St. Joseph, have been swept off. It is also said, that several deaths occur daily in St. Joseph, but that the mortality appears to be confined principally among the emigrants. No case has yet been reported in this place….