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Elgin BuckleyAge: 7 years19111918

Name
Elgin Buckley
Given names
Elgin
Surname
Buckley
Birth February 5, 1911 39 31

Birth of a sisterGrace Buckley
May 10, 1913 (Age 2 years)

Birth of a sisterLennie Buckley
January 26, 1916 (Age 4 years)

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 4 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 5 years)

Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Historical Event
Spanish Influenza Epidemic
1918 (Age 6 years)

Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Death April 7, 1918 (Age 7 years)

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