In Memorial
Pandemic Influenza Storybook
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.
- Emily Beebe-Noyes (Virginia)
- Marcella Bobzien (North Dakota)
- Samuel C. Bowen (Virginia)
- Amos & Mary Palmer Brownell (Missouri)
- Alice Campbell Jones-Chambliss (Virginia)
- Edna Clampitt-Breedlove (North Carolina)
- Bernice Deady-Geller (Ohio)
- Evelyn Flood-Cox (Missouri)
- Joseph & Stanley Garas (New York)
- Otey Gilmar-VanDenburah (Virginia)
- Teofilia Grala-Rogowsky (Ohio)
- George M. Helmkamp (Washington)
- Edith Frances Kymes (California)
- Thomas Langan (Nebraska)
- Leta Bauer Lee and Emma Triphan Buechel (Wisconsin)
- Jennie O’Neal (Texas)
- Burdet Charles Oelschlegel (Connecticut)
- Phye Family (Colorado)
- Sally Roman-Repass (Virginia)
- Joel Anderson Smyer (New Mexico)
- Geneva Fern Thompson-Searcy (Missouri)
- Raymond Toomey (Pennsylvania)
- Arthur & Julienne Valley-Scoltic and Loretta Carmel-Crowley (New York)
- Nellie Walker Silvers Wilson (Missouri)