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From: Donna D Seidel< >
Subject: Obits during the flu epidemic
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 09:02:25 -0600 (CST)

On the subject of obituaries/
I am looking for Murray/
McMurray, husband and
wife who both died during
the 1918-1919 flu epidemic.

I keep wondering how the
names of the dead were
collected during that time.
With everyone afraid to
"go out" and the dead
sometimes just left
on porches or at the
"curb" for the death
wagons-- how on earth
were those deaths
accuratly recorded?

Donna Seidel
Kansas

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