[wbill]

I recently went through my old family cemetary. It was...I don't know the word...shocking? gruesome? ... to see entire families wiped out in a matter of a few days. There were a good handful of instances in that one cemetary.

These were pre- Spanish Flu, most of the dates were in the early to mid 1800's. I'd guess smallpox or cholera, but that's just a guess.

[Boogieman]

I have an uncle who was doing our family genealogy and we went to a cemetery to find a grave for a relative who died at the time of the Spanish flu. They couldn’t give us an exact location, just a general spot in the cemetery. Turns out, in that area, there were no markers, because they were mass graves for the influenza victims.

[bgill]

I have a letter from a relative who was dying of cholera during the Civil War. She wrote about other family members who had succumbed. Very sad.