Gee! My brain said one thing, but my fingers wrote another! It was NINETEEN-18 and NINETEEN-19 when the flu pandemic happened (see earlier msg. below). Glad my typo was caught so I could make this correction! C. On Feb 2, 2005, at 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > My grandfather died in the world-wide pandemic of 1818-1819 which > wasn't listed on the website listed below. > > Notes for Joseph Peeple Griggs: Although no death certificate was > located, it is known that there was an influenza pandemic in 1918-19 > that claimed thousands of lives. It is believed to have been a type of > swine flu; 20 million lives were lost world-wide, 675,000 in the > United States alone. > Epidemics in the United States > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhender/hepidemics.html