The Family "Becoming" Before Ina Bell & Winifred
I think this picture was taken in 1916 or 1917. Winifred, on Agnes's lap, looks to be about a year old or so. She was born in 1915. I think it is very interesting to think that our immediate ancesters survived the "The Influenza Pandemic of 1918"
from the internet...."The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster."
If you do a Google search for the Spanish Flu, you can get a full understanding of what the world went through during the time Agnes & Elmer were raising their family.
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