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Angelina Benna Terlizzi
Maternal mortality in South Philadelphia.
Emelia Malizia, Frances Richard Malizia and Mary Malizia
With the death of Sisters-in-Law, a generation of orphans emerges.
Agnes Ferraro
They later gave another daughter the same name after the child who had died in 1918.
Joseph (Giuseppe) Curzi
I asked my father if there was a house fire and he said “No, they all perished during the epidemic.”
Amelia Coia
Her tombstone was never on her grave.
Irene Colontonio Sonzogni
She left behind ten children.
Valentino Palo and Michelina Carnavale Palo
Wanamaker Estate’s Gardener and his Daughter lost to the flu.
Carmela & Lena Alessandroni
Dying of a Broken Heart—and the Flu
Passyunk Square, Philadelphia