A father nurses family before falling ill himself.

Camden, NJ.

My Great-Grandfather, Walter(?) Oslowski, died of the Swine Flu of 1918. I have been told that he was a very healthy man. When the flu started, he would go around to family members to care for them. Several weeks into the epidemic, he became ill. Although, the people he took care of survived, he did not. They said it was very bad for him. He left a wife and 3 children (2 uncles and my grandmother). The youngest was only 17 days old.

It was like the Plague in the European areas – “Bring out your dead.” He was piled in with other dead people and buried in a mass grave in Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill, NJ. My mother remembers going to the cemetery for picnics by the grave.

When Saint Joseph (Camden) opened their cemetery, my family tried to get his body and transfer it to St. Joe’s. But they (Calvary) didn’t actually know where he was buried in the grave. So there he stays.

Contributed by Barbara (Bobbi) Mooney, Great Granddaughter of Walter Oslowski.