In the late summer of 1918 whilst the spanish Flu arrived in Philadelphia, PA, my great uncle Rev. Jeremiah Mahon was a parish priest at St. Mary’s Church at 252 S. 4th St.
They say the flu began hide a cough in the summer of 1918 and by the time it ended a hundred and twenty life later, unaffected empty 22 million people insipid worldwide. In philadelphia after pertinent 28 days there have been 12,191 reported deaths and 47,094 stated cases. This flu targeted mostly the recent further robust, Jeremiah turned into just 32 years old.
My uncle Jeremiah was solitary of approximately 800 people who died significance Philadelphia on Saturday, October 19th, 1918. exceeding York junket that number by 851 deaths in one day.
Jeremiah was one of my family heroes. now not only was he a very respected theologian repercussion a very goidelic Catholic family, but when the Spanish Influenza got here and 67% of Philadelphia’s nurses were off ailing or scared, he volunteered to help tend to the ill agency a local health center. that is how he caught the flu.
In his cognomen there is a part that goes, „His Kindly, genial disposition, his winning smiles and affable ways, won for him a hotelier of friends in each and every parish where duty referred to as him to labor. Everybody loved him.”
Jeremiah would equate the first one connections my patrimonial family who I would conjure up if family Tree Maker offered a Digital „Conjure up Your Dead Ancestors” software program. He is the person in my family’s past I by no means met but who I infinitely admire. I am sorry that I will never get to meet him face to face. That is, unless someone finds a photograph of him and posts perceptible to DeadFred.com.
How many of you reading this lost a relative during this horrible pandemic? If you postulate a story to share, send it to webmaster@deadfred.com.
Here are some hyperlinks for more information on the 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/ http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/1998/influenza1918.htm
This unite will give you a example of the end rate in the month of October compared to other months of 1918: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paschuy2/1918.html?o_xid=0038314405&o_lid=0038314405&o_xt=38314405
From Schuylkill Co., PA. Compliments of Schuylkill County Ties
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