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Margaret Lyons Ferris & Margaret McDonald Lyons
A Roxborough grandmother and the loss of her mother and grandmother.
Ella Shull Silpath
A handwritten note from that awful day.
Sarah Taylor
“The Aunt I never Knew”
Rudolph Campbell and Mary Ribble
Losses on both sides of a family.
Elizabeth Unruh
People’s choices matter. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Louis and Yetta Bernstein
He didn’t feel well, but he went to work that day.
Anna Harrison Willis
In the end, my grandfather had to dig his wife’s grave.
Margaret Vance Balbirnie Ross
“We used to lay in bed and read all the Death notices to see who died from the flu that we had know”
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.
Myrtle Kane Ambron
“She would make big pots of stew and would hand bowls of soup through the Cemetery gates to the workers.”