Sometimes, you come across a person whose story is so tragic that it seems almost unbelievable. In Ephraim’s history, one such figure is a woman named Emma Alfredette Trueblood Anderson.

In 1918, at the age of forty, Emma contracted flu in Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918. She died, leaving behind her husband and five remaining children, one of an estimated 50 million people killed worldwide.  Emma and her son Andrew are buried in the Ephraim Moravian Cemetery.

Submitted by Curator and Marketing Coordinator Emily Irwin in 2018.