Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: March 4, 1918 The st...: Soldiers with the Flu, Camp Funston, 1918. Today In Wyoming's History: March 4 : 1918 Mess Sergeant Albert Gitchell reported ...Your family was impacted. Every family in the world was. Most pretty dramatically. Do you know how it impacted your own family?
If you do, let us know.
I know that it infected my mother's aunt Patricia, after whom she was named. Like a lot of the young victims of the flu, it didn't kill her right away. She "recovered", but never really recovered, and died a couple of years later. Her health destroyed by the event.
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I have a few genealogy records of my family, but it's mostly direct relatives such as grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc. and very few of the cousins, great uncles, great aunts, etc. so it's hard to tell if anyone died during the 1918 Flu Pandemic.
After a quick look, I did find that my great-grandfather's father and brother both died of pneumonia in the winter of 1892-1893 which sounds suspiciously like a complication to influenza even though it wasn't the 1918 Flu.
Another great-grandfather's mother and father both died within a few weeks of each other around 1925, then less than a year later he also died. I couldn't find it today, but it seems like his uncle or brother also died during that same time period. There isn't any cause of death mentioned in anything I have, but that seems pretty similar to influenza or something similarly infectious.
Other than that, I can't find any info about the 1918 Flu in my family.
My father was born in 1912 and my mother in 1918, but I never heard either of them -- or my grandparents, for that matter -- talk about the 1918 epidemic. I've heard tales of smallpox, scarlet fever, and whooping cough, and I've heard about houses throughout their Iowa town that were quarantined, but nothing about that particular epidemic.
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