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The Spanish Flu Impact on an Ordinary Family
By: Makenzie McCarthy Annie and Edwin Slaght were married with three kids when the flu hit in September of 1918. Annie and Edwin would go through their daily routine the same way residents all over the world are doing now. Unlike the coronavirus, the Spanish flu affected children even more than adults making them more…
Tragedy at Mt. Hamilton
by: Makenzie McCarthy Oran Slaght decided that morning he was going deer hunting up at his friend’s ranch on Mt. Hamilton in San Jose, California. He regularly hunted deer this time of the season but always with a friend. Slaght called his friends and asked his son but no one was available to accompany him.…
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