Hi Eddie and All, Just recently came across a nice Kentucky website and this is what I found out under DEFINITIONS: " Inflenza: The flu. The worst outbreaks in the past have occurred in 1830, 1833, 1836, 1889, 1890, 1897 and the largest in 1918 and 1919 which killed many..." And since you brought this up..I checked my gr-grandfather's death certificate..Greenbrier PATRICK, died 25 December 1918, in Tazewell County, Virginia of LOBAR PNEUMONIA... I wonder if this could have started out as THE FLU and just escalated to the pneumonia....??? Food for thought.... Pam Researching the following surnames: BURKE, CARTER, PATRICK, WINGO, McGRADY, WIMBERLEY, WITT/WHITT, HENSLEY, ROBERTSON.