“Despite my young age, it was something I would never forget”
by Kate Shunney
Iva Lou Michael Dawson’s personal diary chronicles the sickness and financial burdens of the 1918-1919 “Spanish flu” pandemic that swept through the U.S. and across the globe, leaving its mark on her family .
Dawson’s daughter, Sylvia Thomas, transcribed the pages of her mother’s diary recently and found mention of last century’s pandemic there.
Born to a Morgan County family in…
