ROSS, Mrs. Elmer - {from Garfield} Mrs. Elmer Ross died at her home northwest of town Tuesday morning of influenza. Deceased was about 28 years of age. She leaves her husband and four small children. [Rogers Democrat - Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas- October 10,1918]
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Bessie died in the great Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28,in Oct. Her daughter, Fern Ross Hall, told me that she remembered that people were dying so fast that they were stacking the bodies up like firewood and letting them freeze. The nature of that flu bug that year attacked able bodied younger people and spared the elderly and young. consequently there was a shortage of strong men to dig the graves.
Left by June Luttrall Ross on this Memorial page
[Thank you Contributor: Tammy (Time Traveler) (47004136) • [email protected] for the information]
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Bessie died in the great Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28,in Oct. Her daughter, Fern Ross Hall, told me that she remembered that people were dying so fast that they were stacking the bodies up like firewood and letting them freeze. The nature of that flu bug that year attacked able bodied younger people and spared the elderly and young. consequently there was a shortage of strong men to dig the graves.
Left by June Luttrall Ross on this Memorial page
[Thank you Contributor: Tammy (Time Traveler) (47004136) • [email protected] for the information]
ROSS, Mrs. Elmer - {from Garfield} Mrs. Elmer Ross died at her home northwest of town Tuesday morning of influenza. Deceased was about 28 years of age. She leaves her husband and four small children. [Rogers Democrat - Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas- October 10,1918]
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Bessie died in the great Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28,in Oct. Her daughter, Fern Ross Hall, told me that she remembered that people were dying so fast that they were stacking the bodies up like firewood and letting them freeze. The nature of that flu bug that year attacked able bodied younger people and spared the elderly and young. consequently there was a shortage of strong men to dig the graves.
Left by June Luttrall Ross on this Memorial page
[Thank you Contributor: Tammy (Time Traveler) (47004136) • [email protected] for the information]
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Bessie died in the great Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28,in Oct. Her daughter, Fern Ross Hall, told me that she remembered that people were dying so fast that they were stacking the bodies up like firewood and letting them freeze. The nature of that flu bug that year attacked able bodied younger people and spared the elderly and young. consequently there was a shortage of strong men to dig the graves.
Left by June Luttrall Ross on this Memorial page
[Thank you Contributor: Tammy (Time Traveler) (47004136) • [email protected] for the information]
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