Person:Anna Burke (7)

The 1910 Steger census, Anna is living with her mother two sisters and two brothers. Anna is 17 and has a job as a billing clerk with the Department of Transportation. My Dad mentioned she worked in a tavern after she and Walter got married. I do not have their marriage date.(Mike)

Died of flu epidemic. Her youngest daughter, Grace, died within months at age 18 months.

IL Death Record: NEWQUIST, ANNA KATHERINE F/W UNK 0000504 1920-01-25 COOK CHICAGO HEIGHTS 20-01-28

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The twentieth century saw its own version of the Plague, in the form of the 1918-1920 influenza epidemic. Carried to all corners of the globe by soldiers returning from World War I, "the Influenza," as it came to be known (again with a capital letter to distinguish it as the greatest outbreak of a particular disease), killed 20 million people—more than the war itself.

The 1918-1920 influenza pandemic didn't follow the usual pattern: the victims were disproportionately among young and otherwise healthy people between the ages of 20 and 40. There are all kinds of reasons posited for this - among them the fact that you had millions of young men gathered in trenches at the end of WWI to spread the virus around plus troop movements to make sure it went to many, many countries.