re: #76 Hecuba’s daughter

I recall reading a theory years ago that older people had protective antibodies from some 19th century flu epidemic which was not as lethal or widespread as the 1918 epidemic.

My grandfather’s family was devastated by a flu in the 1880s which killed his father’s wife and half their children, and his mother’s husband and half their children. When the widow and widower married, they had a family together. Perhaps that flue was related to the one thirty years later that did not take many of the older folks.