The Spanish-Flu Marriage

The Spanish-flu epidemic had taken William Dewell's wife the day after Christmas 1918; several weeks later it widowed Louise Sapper Schavey. In November 1920, these two bereaved people found solace in each other.


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From the Hobart Gazette of Nov. 12, 1920.

I suppose the Mackey house was the one Dr. Dwight Mackey had built in 1919 "on the south side of Third street."


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William and Louise DeWell. Undated, but looks like 1920s.

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You may have noticed, toward the top right corner of the above newspaper page, the news about Ruth Miller's having "returned to her work at Battle Creek, Mich." The 1920 Census shows the 23-year-old Ruth employed as a sanitarium nurse, lodging somewhere on Sanitarium Ave.