Front row, left to right: "Dooley" Ransome, Miss Anne Laurie Dillard, Robert Trammell, Shell Toomer, and Mrs. McNamee. Back row, left to right: Miss Susie Thomas, Reverend Napier, and Commandant Benjamin Patrick.
The 1918 influenza pandemic was one of the earliest, and perhaps the most traumatic experience to date, in the life of Mrs. Williams, age 91, of Selma, Alabama. That's because her father, a jeweler, contracted the disease and became very ill. Even...