I ran across a book that referred to the flu epidemic of 1918 as "The Spanish Lady Flu." The book is called: "Talk about trouble : a New Deal portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression" (edited by Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.) It's great reading and includes bibliographical references. It discusses Virginia -- social life, customs, and conditions, the Depression and New Deal. Lots of interviews from people all over Virginia. Most of it is made up of WPA interviews from the late 20's, early 30's. I was very surprised to find some relatives. It gives you a great idea of what life was all about in Virginia during the first part of the 20th century. (Not unlike what is discussed on this list.) I would imagine that the book is in a lot of Virginia libraries, due to it's content. S. Henrichsen A legend may not be a record of fact, but the existence of a legend is itself a fact, and requires an explanation. ......attributed to G. Ash ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:53:05 -0500 From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199903110253.VAA11944@ctc.swva.net> Subject: 1918 Flu Epidemic Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Does anyone know stories of deaths in the familes of SW VA from the flu of 1918?? Nearly one million Americans died and 18 million worldwide. I wondered if SW VA suffered any more or less. -eddie