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RE: Behind Stone Walls: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918/1919 at Pennhurst State School & Hospital
Great post! Do you know why they continued to use the cemetery after the epidemic passed? Or did the later people die from similarly contagious diseases?
Great question! We (Conroy, Pirmann and I) do not actually have a concrete answer. More than half of the markers in the cemetery are from 1918, there are three from 1919, but the rest are scattered across the 1920s and there are even two in 1933. It's really a perplexing mystery!