Person:George Sherwood (9)

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George Giffen Sherwood
b.1872 Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, USA
d.4 May 1918 Grand Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
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  1. George Sherwood1906 - 1944
  2. Mary Virginia Sherwood1910 - 2005
  3. Josephine Adaline Sherwood1916 - 2017
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Name George Giffen Sherwood
Gender Male
Birth? 1872 Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, USA
Residence? 1880 Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, USA
Marriage Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, United Statesto Mary Bruster Allen
Residence? 1900 Franklin Township, Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, USA
Residence? 1905 Benton, Iowa, USA
Residence? 1910 Leroy, Benton, Iowa, USA
Occupation? Banker
Death? 4 May 1918 Grand Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Burial? 1918 Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, USA
Cause of Death? 4 May 1918 Died with his wife at start of "1918 Influenza Pandemic"
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George Griffen Sherwood (1872-1918 flu pandemic, age 46)

Both George and his wife, Mary Bruster Allen, died in April during the start of the 1918 flu pandemic. Their death was typical of the pandemic which affected young adults most severely because it is thought their immune systems are most active.

When they died, their children were young; George, 12, Mary Virginia, 8, and Josephine, 2. The older children were taken by Mary Allen's brother and sister in Ames, Iowa. Before moving to Ames, they had lived in North Dakota.

Josie, the youngest, was taken in by her father's mother, Grandma Sherwood. The older two did not see their young sister "for years."

Mary was quite a good artist and many of her paintings were displayed at Virginia's cottage/home on Indian Lake near Dowagiac, Michigan.

He met his wife, Mary Bruster Sherwood, while attending Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

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