Arkansas Genealogy & History: Mrs CARSON Dangerously ILl; at home of Mrs. WILKERSON, her mother, Ft. Smith, AR; 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic

Mrs. John CARSON Dangerously Ill
Suffering From Pneumonia at Home of Mother

The Southwest American

Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas

October 9, 1918

NOTE: Mrs. CARSON's pneumonia probably started off as the flu, since this is reported in the midst of the 1918 "Spanish flu" epidemic, and many other articles from this newspaper issue report people sick with the flu.
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