It was not uncommon in the cemetary to see entire families wiped out within a few days of each other. A couple were from the Spanish flu, a double handful more, Dad said, were from smallpox and cholera.
At the time, things were much more isolated. Were something that virulent to come along now.....I'd rather not contemplate it.
So tragic. I have an aunt and uncle in my family tree, who died from this on the same day. Can’t begin to imagine the heartbreak my Grandmother endured. They were babies :(
“I recently toured the family cemetary with my father, who is the resident expert genealogist.
It was not uncommon in the cemetary to see entire families wiped out within a few days of each other. A couple were from the Spanish flu, a double handful more, Dad said, were from smallpox and cholera.”
My Dad’s sister disappeared at the same time. She was supposedly in the San Francisco area, as a new arrival from the southwest. My Dad and the Aunt who raised him, his brother and sister tried to find her and contact her. They never did and gave up about a decade after she disappeared.
My personal theory was she got the flu and died without relatives or relatives in the area and was buried in a mass type of grave or a pauper’s type of grave.
I tried some genealogy searches re cemeteries and death notices, and I never found any data listing her.