Elsie Thackeray, 19, of Croydon, Utah, training for more than a year at Salt Lake City’s LDS Hospital, was stricken with influenza while nursing patients, and died of pneumonia on 3 Nov 1918. She was survived by her parents and six siblings, one of whom was serving a mission.
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William Raymond Platt, 25, of Salt Lake City, baptized in 1901, died of influenza on 7 Dec 1918 near Yakina, Oregon. He was assigned to the Army’s 93rd Spruce Squadron, cutting timber for the building of warplanes. Survivors include wife Edith and a son, 3 weeks old.
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Julius and Anna Jekosch Leiss were baptized in 1910 in Konigsberg. 20 Nov 1918 Anna, 35, died of influenza. Three days later, her son Willy Julius, 8, died, also of influenza. Father Julius survived, with son Erich, who turned four on the day his brother died.
Image is of Konigsberg, familiar to the Leiss family.
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An early victim of the influenza pandemic (it had been killing victims around the world months before it arrived in Utah in October), Samuel Kingsberry, 54, died at Belfast, Ireland on 3 July 1918. He had been baptized in 1895 by future apostle Charles A. Callis.
Image is from a 1906 passenger manifest showing the arrival of the Kingsberry family in Boston; they spent two years in Utah working in the temple.
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Matilda Saunders Catford, 36, of Cardiff, Wales, died of pneumonia 3 Nov 1918, leaving a husband and three small children. Image is a census entry showing 18-year-old Matilda as a laundry maid in 1901, the year of her LDS baptism.
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Cleo Luke Esplin, 33, died of influenza at Cedar City, Utah on 20 Nov 1918. Possessor of a beautiful singing voice, Cleo was married and the mother of four small children. She had lived in Cedar City only a few years since her husband’s appointment as county agricultural agent, but was considered a “respected citizen,” “intelligent and talented.”
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Clayton Dart, age 25 days, born at Spanish Fork, Utah, son of Paul C. and Jennie Evans Dart. Born the day his father was buried following influenza, Clayton died of influenza, leaving his mother ill with the same malady. His small grave was dedicated by his bishop.
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“Ablaze with the desire to live her religion and see just how good she could be,” Amy Remington Cook of Vernal/Naples, Utah, 29, alumna of Brigham Young University, Sunday School and Primary teacher, wife, mother of two, died of influenza 13 Nov 1918.
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James Leland Dewey, 28, principal of the school at Salem, Utah; alumnus of BY College (Logan) and BYU (Provo). Leader of ward choir. Died of influenza 15 Oct 1918, one of the first victims. Left wife and 4-year-old son; son was also sick with influenza but survived.
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Eva Brown Parker, 22, of Payson, Utah, was an officer in the YLMIA and a Sunday School teacher when she died of influenza 7 Nov 1918. Her small son John died 29 Dec 1918, of croup.
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Charles Monroe Mills, 23, of Evanston, Wyoming, was a graduate of BYU. He married Ida Thomas in the Salt Lake Temple, 1917, and became deputy county treasurer at Evanston when he was drafted in July 1918. He died of influenza in France, 9 Oct 1918.
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Rufus G. Bolton, 28, of Cottonwood, Utah, graduated from LDS High School. He sang in the choir and served on a stake Sunday School board. Rufus died of influenza 22 Sept 1918 in France, where his grandfather Curtis E. Bolton served as one of the first missionaries.
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