Uncategorized
Category
Augusta Anderson
She took both babies, the dead one and my Mom, and put them in a carriage and walked to the ferry, rode from Camden to Philadelphia—then walked to Frankford.
Bertha Mary Colvin, William “Bill” Francis Wilson, Miles Wilson, and Elizabeth Griffin Wilson
“My mother lost both parents to the pandemic…”
Myrtle Kane Ambron
“She would make big pots of stew and would hand bowls of soup through the Cemetery gates to the workers.”
Mary Wingard Yoder
“Why is he crying?” wondered my mother, who was six-years-old at the time.
Homer Aldrich, Blanche Aldrich Hibbard
“His fellow kitchen mates decided that if they sent him to the infirmary that he might die there, so they kept him warm by the stove.”
Share Your Family Story
Send us your family stories or memories from the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia and the region.
About the Stories
What happens when a deadly disease strikes a crowded city? How do people respond? What do they feel and fear?
William Myers & Elva Myers
“Children Will Never Make Me Sick.”
Grays Ferry, Philadelphia
Mary Elizabeth (Menold) Beine
Losing a Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt
Port Richmond, Philadelphia
Walter Bader & Irene Rummel Bader
Whiskey in the Morgue
Chester County, Pa., and West Kensington, Philadelphia