Category: Epidemics & Pandemics

October 6, 2017 Epidemics & Pandemics

The Great Pandemic of 1918, part 1

The flu’s name came from the early affliction and large mortalities in Spain where it allegedly killed 8 million in May that year.

Shay Locomotive and Fully Loaded Log Carts on a Bridge Over the Cherry River in Nicholas County WV

He placed the tiny baby in a cigar box and walked to the Godfreys

Fred Bennett was a fireman on the logging train that ran through Curtin, WV. Doc Godfrey was the engineer on the same train. They shared a terrible tragedy in 1919.

December 15, 2008 Epidemics & Pandemics / Family life / Honoring the dead / Virginia

Can you imagine how it felt to be full of milk and have no child to suckle?

The whole family was sick with whooping cough, and Grandma tried valiantly to keep the baby from getting it, but with no vaccine then, it was a losing battle.

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