INFLUENZA PROVES A SCOURGE IN THIS CITYInfluenza has made fatal inroads against the people of this community since the last issue of The Gazette. Not that it is considered that the malady is growing worse in severity, but rather because this city and its environs are not unlike others, where the disease seems to take its toll in bunches.. . . .After an illness of seven days duration, Mrs. Gibson, wife of Charles Gibson of this city, died at her home on Dearborn street last Friday afternoon. In addition to the husband, she is survived by four sons and one daughter. The funeral services and burial occurred Tuesday at Humboldt, Kans., to which city the body had been sent. The Gibson family has lived in Augusta a number of years.
Sara Ella Gibson (nee. Gurwell) 1865-1918, was my mom's paternal grandmother, therefore my g-grandmother. According to my research so far, she was my only direct ancestor claimed by the Great Spanish Flu Pandemic. Although I have found one ancestral relative it also claimed, my 1st cousin 2x removed, Guy Truman Walker (1886-1919).
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