burial crisis
TagCatherine Kuhn Schaeffer
Since 2 of the new mothers were ill, Aunt Kate nursed all three newborns.
Anna Marie “Nancy May” Long
She recalled seeing the cart come down the street to collect the bodies.
Isabelle Gallagher-Frank
Mom remembered how the bells kept tolling at St. Gabrielle’s Church
Joseph “Dynamite Joe” Nichols
After he delivered the dynamite, he then gave families the boxes for the youngsters who had died.
Annette Saltzman
One day, they found a new game to play. Climb up……jump down……climb up again…..jump down
Amelia Coia
Her tombstone was never on her grave.
Robert Campion
Dad stood and counted all 9 members of his friends’ family.
Rudolph Campbell and Mary Ribble
Losses on both sides of a family.
Walter Oslowski
A father nurses family before falling ill himself.
Anna Harrison Willis
In the end, my grandfather had to dig his wife’s grave.