I suspect the article may have the date wrong, and is referring to the 
great Flu Epidemic in 1918.  (How could he have watched his family die 
in that epidemic if he was born that same year?)

More information about the 1918 epidemic here: 
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2229

Michelle Touton

Smoke wrote:
> According to this article:
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> http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/WhiteRiver/abwhites02side.asp
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> there was a French Flu epidemic in Arkansas in 1912.
>
> Smoke
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> On 4/6/07, Jeremy Pye <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have notices a loarge amount of child deaths in
>> Arkansas and Oklahoma specifically all in 1912...I was
>> wondering if there was some sort of epidemic that hit
>> the country or the central states in general during
>> that year.  I do not recall ever hearing about one,
>> but I was surveying a cemetery recently in Oklahoma
>> where there were a significant amount of deaths in
>> 1912 due to something.  I would appreciate any tips.
>>
>> Jeremy Pye
>>
>>
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