Genealogy

You know, I read your post not long after my own where I speculated that the spate of deaths of young people might have been because of the 1918 pandemic. I can't help while reading your post to twig to the missing great-grandparents in the 1891 census. Did you know there was a 1889-1891 flu pandemic also? It wasn't as horrible as the one 28 years later but epidemiologists think it was an early form of H1N1 that came roaring back in 1918. One reason they think that is that after the smoke cleared, it turned out that older people who earlier had sickened in 1891 but lived, survived the 1918 flu just fine. Anyway, George Hazlett, the ancestor I wrote about in my "Fresh Start" post, died of the flu in 1891. I wonder if your great-grandparents did too. If the flu came through town in a serious enough way, burials and death announcements could have been disrupted from their normal process.