We Remember Clara Griffin Mann, Flu Victim of 1918

This beautiful lady, Clara Griffin Mann, was the sister of my Grandpa Charley Griffin. She died of the terrible influenza epidemic of 1918, leaving two little children to be raised by family members. Her memory is still vibrant through generations of descendants.

During the same terrible "Spanish Flu" outbreak, other cousins of this family were lost. Woods Samuel Terry and his wife, Caroline died on the same day in 1919, one day after they lost their day old baby girl. Both of these families lived in the Pacific Northwest where the flu entered the United States from ships in the Puget Sound area.