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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:MV80NjQ0NjkyXzg0NjA0MDkyXzQ0NUU5QkI1] [quote:President-Elect BFD:MV80NjQ0NjkyXzg0NjAzOTgxXzU2NEFGODc4] My grandmother, born in 1933 says there was no talk of the pandemic by her elders whatsoever, about it. Take it for what it is. [/quote] Tell that to those people in that cemetery mass grave in Birmingham, Alabama. 1933 is 15 years after the pandemic when your grandmother was born. That would be at least 20 years before she could be old enough to understand what a pandemic was. Believe what you want. Everyone usually does. [/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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