Margaret, the third of the Killion girls, died 100 years ago today...
My great-grandmother, Margaret Gersbach (nee Killion) died at her home, 19 Northumberland Street Stanmore...the fourth victim of the Spanish Flu Pandemic in our Killion family. Margaret was 57. Her cause of death is shown as "chronic bronchitis, pneumonic influenza and heart failure". She's suffered from influenza for 10 days. Margaret is buried at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery. Margaret Gersbach (nee Killion) about 1915 What a sad time it was for the family with the death of the three daughters and a grandson of John Killion and Jane Feeney in under three months. John was 59 when he died in 1864 leaving Jane with their five young children. He died at the family's home on the North Shore, Port Macquarie from "asthma" and all the children suffered from bronchial issues. My grandmother, Essie, was just short of her twenty eight birthday when her mother died. In April, she'd seen her brother, Fran...