Quote Originally Posted by Trek420 View Post
My Dad was born in 1919 so I think about this from time to time. I did not know about it when my Grandmother was still alive so never got to ask how or if it effected her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
My grandmother lived through the flu pandemic. She was quite young but remembered it sharply. She lost a sister and several family friends. She didn't like talking about it much. But I do have a video of her discussing it for an ancestry project. She passed away a year ago.

I've also been trying to look through our family ancestry book (how cool is it that I have an ancestry book going back to 1775!?!?) to find the story about Jesse James ransacking the family homestead and holding them captive for a few days to eat, rest, and refuel before heading further west--and living to tell about it. Tall tale? Possibly, but it's in my book