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Catherine Kuhn Schaeffer
Since 2 of the new mothers were ill, Aunt Kate nursed all three newborns.
Elizabeth Hughes
Throughout the epidemic, the utilized her nursing skills and medical knowledge to care for a number of people including family members and neighbors. All of them survived.
Isabelle Gallagher-Frank
Mom remembered how the bells kept tolling at St. Gabrielle’s Church
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.
Ruth Brierly- Millring
Many classmates and friends didn’t make it.
Adelheide Mueller
“When they lied down, they died, they died!”
Helen Eckert Fry
She was convinced they were spared because they lined their windows and door jams with onions.
The Paul Family
West Virginian Resilience.
Rev. George H.G Rowland
A Methodist minister that tended to the families that lost loved ones became ill himself