05/28/2026
🌡️ As Gulf Coast summers settled in, the heat, marshes, and standing water brought fear of “the fevers.”
This was the season when families along the coast braced themselves for outbreaks of yellow fever, illnesses that swept through towns, halted travel, emptied homes, and left communities grieving. Quarantines were established. Businesses slowed. Church bells rang far too often.
And families waited helplessly through the long fever season.
One of those losses may have touched the Krebs family directly.
In the mortality list for the epidemic appears the heartbreaking entry:
🕯️ “July 25, the child of H. F. Krebs, East Pascagoula.”
The child was listed among the deaths during the 1875 yellow fever epidemic. At the time, Pascagoula and the surrounding region were deeply vulnerable to these outbreaks. Travel and shipping routes helped illnesses spread quickly between New Orleans, Mobile, Biloxi, and Pascagoula.
Then, just days later, The Mississippi Press published this notice offering condolences to Mr. Hubert Krebs and his wife “in the loss of their eldest child.”
These clues seem to fit together remarkably well…
…but there’s one mystery still unsolved.
So far, I have not been able to locate a cemetery record or identify the name of a child of Hubert Krebs who died in 1875. Hubert and the rest of his family are buried in Greenwood cemetery.
Could this have been another Krebs line entirely?
Or does someone out there know the story, or the name, of this child?
👀 If this is your family line, we would love to hear from you.
📰 The Mississippi Press
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Saturday, July 31, 1875 · Page 3
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