Laura Coleman Irwin was my grandmother. She told me the story of how Ethel and Jim died in 1910. Many in the family came down with typhoid that year and then scarlet fever. The typhoid outbreak started in the fall at the road construction camp. My grandmother was in the room when her brother and sister died, sick with scarlet fever, and remembered being carried by her father Ambery to their funerals. She and her sister Lottie had to have their hair cut off because it was so matted from their being sick for so long. Della canned peaches while at camp that fall. When Ben returned home that spring from working away from home, he opened some peaches and he became sick with typhoid and was taken to the hospital in Nanton. But he survived and lived to be very old and tell many stories!