One in thirteen: the 1833 cholera epidemic, and the town drunk who buried Lexington’s dead

One in thirteen: the 1833 cholera epidemic, and the town drunk who buried Lexington’s dead

Lexington History, continued: tonight The Lexington Times is publishing history deep dives through the night, built from the original newspapers. All clippings below are from the Kentucky Gazette of 1833, which is in the public domain. One in thirteen In the first days of June 1833, Lexington was a city of roughly 7,000 people and one of the proudest places in the West — the “Athens of the West,” home of Transylvania University, Henry Clay, and …