Philadelphia
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.
Joseph Andrew Lopko
“…too weak to stand or crawl, [he] dragged himself on his stomach to a garden area by the house.”
Emelia Malizia, Frances Richard Malizia and Mary Malizia
With the death of Sisters-in-Law, a generation of orphans emerges.
Veronica and Maximillian Fischer
She had to take care of her flu stricken husband while caring for a newborn.
Mary Eife
Family name spotted on the walls of Spit Spreads Death.
Charles Eiser and Elizabeth Nichter Eiser
She died six days before her son’s first birthday.
Adelheide Mueller
“When they lied down, they died, they died!”
Joseph “Dynamite Joe” Nichols
After he delivered the dynamite, he then gave families the boxes for the youngsters who had died.
Anna Dougherty-Finn
She left behind six children.