{"id":359,"date":"2020-05-01T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historicwoolenmills.org\/fabric\/?p=359"},"modified":"2020-05-03T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T22:23:51","slug":"flu-time-memories-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historicwoolenmills.org\/fabric\/2020\/05\/01\/flu-time-memories-of-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu Time\u2014Memories of a child."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Roy<\/a>

Bettie Frances (Baltimore) Harlow stands with nephew Roy. Bettie was a weaver at the mill, paid by out-put, seven cents per yard of cloth produced. Her husband, Marcellus Carter Harlow, worked in the mill\u02bcs wet-\ufb01nishing department. The Harlows were Aunt Bettie and Uncle Cel to young Roy.<\/p><\/div>\n

I had a little bird,
\nIts name was Enza.
\nI opened the window,
\nAnd in-\ufb02u-enza.<\/p>\n

In October of 1918 200,000 people died in the United States
\nfrom the Spanish Flu. Thirty-seven year old David Baltimore,
\na son of the Woolen Mills village died October 25, 1918.
\nHow to tell a story of a neighborhood? Through maps
\nand legends, the reading of tea leaves, received mythology.
\nImperfectly. Through the memories of a child.
\nRoy Baltimore and his parents moved in with Cel and Bettie Harlow in the west end of Woolen Mills village (1606 WMRd) shortly before his father\u02bcs death…<\/p>\n

I had the \ufb02u as I was coming here, and when I got here I had it. And I remember as clear as a bell what the treatment for \ufb02u was by this particular Doctor, it was a dose of castor oil, every morning, I used to dread it, that went on for several days, I don\u02bct know for how long.
\nI was born in Richmond. My father was a conductor on the railroad, a yard conductor, in Richmond. I would think that the date would have been around 1916 when he developed an illness, I was born in 1914. He developed an illness, had a leaking valve in his heart and it killed him. He died when I was four and I came to live with my Uncle Cel in that brick house across the street here (1606 Woolen Mills Road).
\nSee my father was brought here, from Richmond before he died. I think he lived here maybe eight to nine months, I don\u02bct know how exactly how long, before he died.
\nI vaguely remember him because I was just a little over four years old when he died. But I remember once he was sitting on the porch, I have a picture of him sitting on that porch over there, and there was a snake in the yard, and I was getting close to the snake and he cautioned me about it.
\nI can remember that.
\nIt\u02bcs a strange thing how your memory can go back and pick up little isolated items, because prior to moving here from Richmond, I can remember well the layout of the apartment we had over on Church Hill. The kitchen was back here, there was a combination dining room bedroom ahead of that and another small room ahead of that. And I can remember my mother telling me \u201cGet your toys up because your daddy is going to be here pretty soon.\u201d Words to that effect, and I couldn\u02bct have been more than four years old at that time. That\u02bcs remarkable that memory is in your mind.–RB<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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