Eddie & all, In our Chappell family, the flu epidemic hit hard. But the year is documented as 1917, perhaps this was the beginning of it? According to family history, my grandfather, LEVI JACKSON CHAPPELL'S first wife, MARY ALICE WILLIAMS, died on Dec-20-1917, and their daughter, MAUDE CHAPPELL-HIGGINS died on Dec-6-1917. Maude had just had twins & as said in another post, they think she was weakened from giving birth, the babies survived. But she & her mother became part of the statistics of flu epidemic. Maude died exactly two weeks before her mother. My mom is not certain but thinks the others in the family may have had the flu as well, but all survived with exception of these two. Two years later, Levi married my grandmother, NADINE HOUSTON CHOATE HIGGINS. While going back to hunt my dates for this incident, I realized had my grandfather's first wife not have died, I wouldn't be here today, because my mother would never have been born! Strange how life works isn't it? Darcy Tolliver-Noonkester 0:)