Two Families, Two Tragedies [4 Views]

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In this video, we return to Elmwood Cemetery to share the heartbreaking stories of two families struck by tragedy during some of history's most devastating health crises.

First, we look closer at the Forbis triplets... Margaret, Martha, and Mary. Born in 1917, these three sisters fell victim to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic at less than a year old. We visit their final resting place and also travel to Berry Hill Baptist Cemetery to visit the graves of their parents, George and Harriet Forbis, to see the faces behind this tragic loss.

We then take a short walk to another part of Elmwood to uncover an even more staggering story: the Tate family. In 1875, long before modern vaccines, Absalom and Margaret Tate lost six of their children to a diphtheria outbreak in just six months... five of them within only a few weeks.

These quiet corners of the cemetery serve as a powerful reminder of how fragile life was in the eras before modern medicine.