>I have heard of terrible epidemic >at the turn of the 19th century. >The 1918 flu epidemic was especially >bad, but I have not found much >evidence of its effect in Alabama. I have noticed this too. No one in my family that I know of died or even had the flu of 1918. In 1918 my Grandmother Daurene Carleton in Bashi was 2 years old and my Grandfather Walter F. Smee in Mobile Co. was 6. Amanda K. Howell http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/3035/AmandaK.html