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Originally Posted by Lynnie
Oooh, that's just the type of historical book I like! I bet it's fascinating. I do know many of the horrors that went down that year. And the mass graves that are still being discovered today.
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When the Spanish flu came to Silverton, CO, it took one third of the town. In other words, there was not one house that did not have a flu victim (dead or survived). The undertaker died too; and the bodies were piling high. There is a mass grave in the Hillside Cemetery. Most of the victims were buried in their own graves.
I told Cass there was a Frankie who died of the flu at the age of 18. She was the daughter of Silverton's sherriff. Her full name was Frankie Leonard.
