Thomas Craycroft: For Love of His Fellow Man

Thomas Craycroft: For Love of His Fellow Man

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

ABC070, part 1

Thomas Craycroft was a medical student who volunteered to help in the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia.  He was one of 15 Philadelphians who died during that mission of mercy but whose remains are now interred under the Yellow Fever monument at Laurel Hill East.

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