Charlotte Lucinda Mawrey-Bryan, at age 22.
Born April 19, 1874, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Died October 15, 1918 in Washington D.C. during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. She left behind her daughter, my mother, Elizabeth Irene Bryan, age four.

Pandemic
The Manhattan Mercury, Sunday, March 1, 1998
Lori Goodson, Staff Writer
Almost exactly 80 years ago today, a vicious strain of influenza--which would go on to kill millions as it roared around the world--quietly emerged at Fort Riley's Camp Funston.

"It came in silently...," said 98-year-old Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux of Manhattan, who told of the epidemic in her recently published autobiography, Any Given Day: The Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux.

Book Review:
Virus Crossover Pattern Traced
by Lauran Neergaard-Associated Press
February 16, 1999
"WASHINGTON--The 1918 flu that killed more than 20 million people may have quietly percolated for several years, maybe even trading back and forth between pigs and people, until suddenly growing strong enough to become the world's worst pandemic."

1918, Washington's Season of Death
By John F. Kelly, Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 22, 2004; Page DZ10
In Mere Months, The Spanish Flu Killed Thousands.
In the summer of 1918, the director of the District's contagious diseases office boasted that Washington was one of the world's healthiest cities.

By that autumn, Washington was gripped by a flu epidemic so severe that funeral homes ran out of coffins and bodies piled up in morgues. George Washington University Hospital was so crowded, a doctor who worked there remembered years later, that "the only way we could find room for the sick was to have undertakers waiting at the door ready to remove bodies as the victims died."

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