[Responsibility2nd]

My Grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Walker, was born July 4, 1979. His first wife died as a result of the Spanish Flue in 1918. As a young widower with three boys to raise, he married my Grandmother in 1920.

He was 41. She was 18. Just a few years older than the boys.

[Red Badger]

Your Grandfather is only 39?.....................

[Responsibility2nd]

1879. not 1979.

[firebrand]

My great uncle and my grandfather both died of it. My mother was only one year old when her father died, so she never knew him. He was the president of the bartenders’ union and played the piano. His mother lived on Anarchist Alley and had a big photo of him on the wall, and when my mother went to visit, my great-grandmother would say, “This is your father. Don’t forget him.”

[mgstarr]

My uncle died as a child from the Spanish Flu at the age of nearly 2 in 1919.

[Blood of Tyrants]

1979?

[DugwayDuke]

Responsibility2nd wrote: “My Grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Walker, was born July 4, 1979. His first wife died as a result of the Spanish Flue in 1918. As a young widower with three boys to raise, he married my Grandmother in 1920.”

My paternal grandmother died from the Spanish Flu as well. She was only 20.

[grey_whiskers]

Pretty neat trick, to have been born in 1979 and to have lost a wife in the 1918 flu epidemic. 😷