Many years ago I worked with a gentleman who at that time in 1918 had a job making coffins.
He told me how wide spread the deaths were and how they came so fast.
It was hard for me to grasp it at that time (circa late 50s)-Tom
They literally had bring out your dead carts in Philly and Boston IIRC.
Grandmother (still alive, last G left bless her) on my Mom’s side lost 4 family members in the VA/W.VA mountains. The hill areas had a LOT of uncounted dead too...
“Many years ago I worked with a gentleman who at that time in 1918 had a job making coffins.
He told me how wide spread the deaths were and how they came so fast. It was hard for me to grasp it at that time (circa late 50s)-Tom.”
My mother’s family was in the same geographical areas of my Dad’s family, and they lost no one in that epidemic. They were isolated on a small farm, miles from the nearest small town. They were basically self sufficient re food and water. They just stayed at home and kept the kids home from school. My mother’s dad, had 3 brothers in fairly large towns/cities, and they lost no one to the flu epidemic. Again, they kept away from others and stopped their kids from going to school. Also, they had no one in the military at that time.
My wife’s families on both sides in small towns in the midwest had zero casualties, and interestingly no one in the military at that time. She had a lot of relatives living at that time.