Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-10-22
DEATHS FROM IhF!uN "a!
D 'r'.,, Hundreds Of Families
h The County.

y a,nnty is paying a heav.
b '0p Are to an outbreak Q
atn .. u,s that made its ap
lnhasoll1 et. !. The epidemi
here Re. M most disastrous tina ,
' ls. county. The dead al
e o.. ,.'o aver forty, and each da'
y " started about Kearn
p ts.s the disease proved vir
Tn'i tbs outset, causing al
,bsr of deaths the hrs
, .nrssd then to oharles TOwI
It's prevalence here has
H. Of desolatiOn in many
'' which loved ones have
H. taken. Suffering has
P ',tiI Of people in every
! If life. the well-to-do being
f1ite as sorely as the poor
4 Red Cross early in the epl.
actively interested In the
ks5sying the needy. An emer-
R.t.I was established in the
him.. Mrs. A. G. Bodlne' a
.a.ident of the town, volun-
1 .nnsrvise the nursing force.
/ to 20 patients are treated
(. FONTS are moved to thelr
4 soon as they show sufficient
H. TO make room for others
Ected. t,;,;oo
h instances entire families
[tep practically at the same
being left to minister to
4 Some patients necessarily
Es,ted before any relief meas
4 be inaugurated, so sudden
was the visitation
|tbe first patients to succumb
IIsdv was Miss Marie Rich
I,lrg. daughter of MIR. and
4. Young, Jr, Of Charles
II was 20 years old and died
no. Phillip Campbell, aged
| gr. and Mrs. j. 7. Camp
lar Kearneysville, was a VIC
E,ths occurred in or near
Eown on Oct. p. Mrs. Ella
bng, leaving a family of four
tbree daughters; Mrs. Rodney
Mrs. Ada C. Wood, the last
Iving a husband and a family
EiIdren, and Walter j. Will
following day death claimed
tne Phillips daughter of Mrs.
Phillips, in Charles Town,
Eirgie Kline, daughter of Mr..
kline, az the Bloomery. The
bath was followed by that of
| two days later, Mr.. Kline
b. invalid for several years.
|ssie Hensler, wife of Mr..
Hensler, passed away on Oct.
/ a husband and six small
Eame day Miss Mary Trus-
bter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Died at the home of her par
|Halltown
khel McDonough, aged 10,
! Red Cross Hospital Sunday
|Oct, 10.
lth Of Lee Washington, son
aTey Washington, occurred
Be at Bardane Oct. 16.
Argaret Brown died at her
lharles Town Thursday, Octo-
this horrifying period of NOR
b were an unusual number
from other causes. Among
+ Mrs. Preston Willard at
Oct, II; Mrs. Leila Ran
be Charles Town Hospital,
hrs. Sarah Willis Ransom,
Prs Margaret Arnett, wife of
ftt, near Keys Ferry, Oct.
argaret Cubbage. near Duff
\ a; Roland KILLER, former
pant Of Dufhelds, near Luray,
Ia,
fnt Of emergency cases
+ colOred people is being CIV
Philips Chapel which has
'efted into a temporary hos
'fcelent relief work is being
I a list of deaths among the
F0ple of the county, not all
Fenza-pneumonia.
4, Moore, S., at Mt. Pleas
pct. |. Eva Rrour 10 %
''iIle; William West and Lee
|Tlie, at Kearneysville, Oct.
Ssn'eF' ID, of Albert Rogers,
,On Lawson, 46, on the 10th;
/ ''adlord, aged u, on the same
| | lzth' Mary Johnson, aged
tsmle Mitchell Chas Fergu-
NeaFneysyille, Oct. IA, Eliza.
ire q years Nellie Carr,
IVet Is, a child of Robt. New.
| Ayerstown and of William
b Aldridge; Oct. is. George
& aged 80, an orderly at tht
Town Hospital.
among the colored victims o.
'cg coming later in the weel
/ Of Harry Allen, Kearneys
laughter of Jere Johnson, a
pgn; wife of Herbert Mitch
| Colston farm; Mrs. Name,
in Charles Town.
DIED IN CAMP