Eddie, RE: Flu Epidemic-- It occurred to me--are you interested in the people who died, and dates? Or just the stories? My mother's 3-yr-old nephew was the only one in her immediate family, that I know of, who died. When little Homer Rowlett was born in Middlesboro, KY, his mother died giving birth to him. The nurse had given her a dose of iodine which, supposedly killed her. There were three other children, 6, 5, and 3. My mother had been married about two months. Her brother's devastation at losing a wife and mother of four boys put a hardship on him. He had already lost his first wife and baby in childbirth. He asked my mother to come and live at his home and care for the children. My dad worked for the railroad and was home on weekends. (They would go to silent movies when he was home (5-cents).) My grandmother took the newborn to her home in VA, just across the KY/VA line. Homer lived there until he died of the Flu in 1918. My mother stayed four months with her brother until he remarried. I can now see why those three boys always considered her their favorite aunt. Two of the three died before she did in 1998. Pat