Local victims of the 1918 Spanish Flu

Pictured is a newspaper account from 1918 detailing the Isle Madame residents who succumbed to the Spanish Flu.

Thanks to a Facebook post by Dr. Steven DeRoche, the identities of local Spanish Flu victims have been made known. In the following columns, I hope to bring the identities of these victims to a wider audience. In late September of 1918, the ship Italy made its way to the nearest port with a sick…

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Don Boudrot

Don Boudrot is a retired English teacher, currently an author and historian living on Isle Madame.