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    1. [PAMONVAL] 1918 influenza epidemic
    2. Mary Elaine Lozosky
    3. I have been researching a Aunt that died at 7 years of age in the 1918 influenza epidemic.Her name was MARY TIMKO. She died October 23, 1918 and was buried on October 24, 1918. She was from Dearth, PA. The funeral director was JOSEPH HAKY from Uniontown. She is buried in St. Mary's cemetery in Uniontown. I do have a death certificate from Vital Records. I checked the papers and cannot locate an obit. I visited Haky Funeral Home and they tried to be very helpful and checked their records.But they found that their records are missing from February 1918 to 1921. They thought that so many children died during the flu epidemic that they were buried in 2 rows at St. Mary's in an area marked "baby land" in unmarked graves. I really would like to locate her gravesite. Any ideas? Any thoughts about the flu epidemic in our area? I know that there has been a great deal of national research but has any been done locally? It had to be devistating on families because so many children died.

    03/20/2001 01:22:19