This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: roberts Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YKB.2ACE/240.1.1 Message Board Post: Judy, Thanks so much for answering. I was trying to figure the date of the Flu? epidemic from the few dates that I have. Know that Joshua was around in 1890 as have a postcard addressed to him that year. The last date I have for a child being born is 1889, tho there may have been some later than that. The son, Nathan ( b. 1888 ) left his uncles home at abt. age 12-14 but that doesn't tell me when the parents died. It does seem to indicate that he was old enough to understand what was going on, be aware that he was possibly being mistreated ( maybe not ), and cheated out of what he felt was rightfully his. Suppose it would have been then between 1889 and 1900 as he would have been 12 yrs. in 1900.-or at age 14, 1902.