1918 Pandemic Flu Gravesite Found in Pennsylvania
Last week a highway construction worker in a small Pennsylvania town made a grim discovery with links to a deadly pandemic that killed millions around the globe nearly a century ago… According to the Pottsville Republican-Herald, approximately 17,000 residents in the region around Schuylkill Haven fell ill. Close to 1,500 of them died, leaving as many as 3,000 children orphaned.
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For what it may be worth: My grandmother, Margie Brosey Hocker, wife of Arthur Peter Hocker, Derry Township, PA, died in June (I think) of 1918 from a “Flu Epidemic” (Spanish Flu”??). My father, Ellwood (AKA: Elwood) Carlton Hocker, Sr. told me this and his father Arthur Peter Hocker died about 7 years later of another Influenza outbreak.