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Camp Funston,
Kansas My grandfather was an army doctor during the 1918 flu, see this page for
documents and pictures. war bond
My GrandFather, He died before WW2 , he died long before I was born, so I never meet him.
HARRY ROSS WILSON born in Chanute Kansas in 1878 died in1939 buried in Chanute, Kansas Cemetery. Married
KETURAH JANE KERR born August 29,1882 in Iowa. Died December 2, 1961 Buried in Shawnee Kansas Cemetery.
They had four children. Harry Ross Wilson was a physician received his degree
from the University of Chicago.
He met Keturah when she was studying
nursing. He serviced as a doctor in the US Army WWI,
stationed at Camp Funston, Kansas.
During the Flu epidemic. HE was a small town doctor in
Williamsburg
and a few other Kansas towns, settling Shawnee Kansas . Doctoring the sick during the great
depression, he died poor.
You've probably seen this picture from 1918
Harry Wilson could be in this picture somewhere, ??
what
we do know is that he was
somewhere on Camp Funston, Kansas
This Receipt is for a War Bond he purchased --1918
for more info about the flu, where it started "kansas" and more see
this link or
see bottom of this page.
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about the FLU in 1918 from Fold3 web. this info
about the second wave of the flu during Sept, Oct and Nov along with my
grandfathers
war bond purchase OCT18, 1918, puts him at ground Zero..
I wonder if
he caught it and survived ??? A personal Story
: One story relayed by my 95 year old
mother from Harry's wife Keturah, Harry told her the troops were dying so
fast they just stacked them up outside, in the cold, until the morgue could take care
of them at a later time,, I have no idea how long they might have
been frozen in the Kansas winter.. How times change, however per
this article
over 100 Million died.. Even with the world population what it is
today, 100 million would be devastating. what a sad
and scary time it must have been.
More info