In Memorial
To date, October 1918 remains the deadliest month in U.S. history when approximately 200,000 Americans died of the flu. Healthy, young adults (average age 35 years) began coughing in the morning and were dead by the evening. The family stories described in this section define true courage amid unbearable loss.
- Beebe-Noyes, Emily (Virginia)
- Bobzien, Marcella (North Dakota)
- Bowen, Samuel C (Virginia)
- Brownell, Amos & Mary Palmer (Missouri)
- Campbell Jones-Chambliss, Alice (Virginia)
- Clampitt-Breedlove, Edna (North Carolina)
- Deady-Geller, Bernice (Ohio)
- Flood-Cox, Evelyn (Missouri)
- Garas, Joseph & Stanley (New York)
- Gilmar-VanDenburah, Otey (Virginia)
- Grala-Rogowsky, Teofilia (Ohio)
- Helmkamp, George M (Washington)
- Kymes, Edith Frances (California)
- Langan, Thomas (Nebraska)
- Leta Bauer Lee and Emma Triphan Buechel (Wisconsin)
- O'Neal, Jennie (Texas)
- Oelschlegel, Burdet Charles (Connecticut)
- Phye Family (Colorado)
- Roman-Repass, Sally (Virginia)
- Smyer, Joel Anderson (New Mexico)
- Thompson-Searcy, Geneva Fern (Missouri)
- Toomey, Raymond (Pennsylvania)
- Valley-Scoltic, Arthur & Julienne and Loretta Carmel-Crowley (New York)
- Walker Silvers Wilson, Nellie (Missouri)
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