Here’s a sad story from the Van Bunschoten book, which would be a great premise for a tragic love poem (like The Highwayman)

Sarah, b. Jan. 8, 1786; d. Sept. 5, 1803. She was to have married John Greene, … He came up from New York to his home near Hyde Park with an illness that proved to be yellow fever and she nursed him. He died; she caught the fever from him and also died, and they lie side by side in Hyde Park church-yard.

Sarah’s page can be found on WeRelate