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.

Thanks for looking.