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What my grandfather and his family did in 1918 to escape the pandemic that was killing hundreds in Florence, Alabama.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 71883211:MV80NjQ0NjkyXzg0NjAzMTUwXzlBRjBFNzFC] My Welsh family sailed to Philadelphia as part of William Penn's English Royal land grant that later became known as Pennsylvania. He came as an indentured farm worker. After working off his indentured service(several years), he was given free land down in South Carolina if he agreed to harvest "Naval Stores" for the Penn Plantation Colony up north. All wooden sailing ships used to need to be caulked with cotton and pine tar pitch to seal the ship hulls. He and many others would harvest pine tar from Yellow Pines in SC by cutting deep channels in the pine trees to collect the pine sap. That pine sap was then turned into pitch or pine tar and also distilled into turpentine. It took him and his family several years to earn the title to the land in SC. [/quote]
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In 1918 the "Spanish" Flu was ravaging Alabama very badly. They were worried about the children dying from the pandemic. So, he decided to take his whole family including his wife and four kids from Florence, Alabama to Wichita Falls, Texas in a covered wagon pulled by a pair mules.
My mother, before she died still remembered riding in the wagon, since she was the smallest child, while the older kids walked.
My grandfather was a machinist by trade and later moved on to Port Arthur, TX during the oil boom of the 1920s.
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