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Died of Spanish Flu While in Service, 1918
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Died of Spanish Flu While in Service, 1918
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Died of Spanish Flu While in Service, 1918

My great Uncle X3 (?) died while serving in the 47th Balloon Company at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. He died 10 days after the fort was closed due to the Spanish flu.

War was raging in Europe, but the little hospital at Fort Omaha had been quiet on that warm Thursday, Oct. 3, 1918. Then, about 4 p.m., two soldiers showed up with a cough, fever and chills, the classic symptoms of influenza. By 9 p.m., the number was 30. The next morning, the bases surgeon general immediately closed the base to visitors and barred any soldiers from leaving.

Photo found online of nurses at Fort Omaha who treated hundreds of soldiers at the the base which at one point overflowed with military patients.

No one knows for sure where he is buried, but his sister placed a commemorative memorial stone at the family's cemetery 43 years later.

Used APP Patriarch and FIT template.

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bcazzell
Oh, the story makes me sad. Your layout is perfect and has so much history, both family and otherwise. Beautifully created Christy!
 
myla
very interesting and successful memory page. it is interesting with the destiny of this uncle to be able to make the parallel with our era which also knows an unprecedented pandemic!
 
isDK
So sad. Supposedly we know more now, but the scenario is not so different now in some places for old people, prisoners, meat packing workers. It is especially disturbing that it will be years, if ever, that some families will recover loved ones for burial.
 
helenedubois
Wow, this is an amazing page about your uncle. So sad, but how incredible that we are in so much the same situation today. You have some grand photos and memorabilia.
 
Mary Davies
This is so sad he was so young to have died from the virus his Sister did a wonderful tribute by placing a memorial stone at the families cemetery.
I heard a comment yesterday from President Trump stating the year was in 1917 what and idiot he cannot even get the dates right now.... your page is heart felt as so many died and did not have the facilities we have of today.tfs.Standing O for you.
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musicmom3
It's good perspective to have--we're not the first, won't be the last. Wonderful documentation.
 
marnie333
Really brings it home! Love the FI template for the combo of photos and docs! My ancestry research revealed three young children out of 8 in a family died in the mid 1860s and I traced it to the spread of cholera originating with the arrival of a steamship from England in the harbor of Halifax, Canada. Then soldiers carried it to Fort Leavenworth where my family had settled.
 

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