Family diaries kept during Spanish flu give Ohio descendants hope during coronavirus pandemic.
As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and quarantines, Patterson felt that looking back into her family’s history might bring some hope, connection and perspective.
“It just felt like a really good time to evaluate how bad this is, compared to how bad our ancestors had it,” Patterson said over the phone from Chardon.“I baked bread and sugar cakes and picked mangoes,” she wrote on Monday, Oct. 28, 1918. “Then the children and I went to town in [the] evening after some more medicine to prevent influenza.
She credits Grandma Cox’s story for some of that. “We’re sending these family photos back and forth. My kids are asking questions about our family, because of this story,” she said. “But, between the deaths and funerals adding up on Lucy’s ledger, she also recorded signs of everyday life – visits to town, minor injuries to the children and several weddings – in a sign that life was still moving forward, even in the midst of a world at war,” Patterson wrote.
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