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Amelia Josephine Gerstner Davis

Birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death
18 Oct 1918 (aged 24)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Burial
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
N_16_32_4E
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Daughter of Joseph and Julia Foth Gerstner.

She married Oklahoma-native Bryce Edwin Davis on September 28, 1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Her husband fought valiantly in World War I before being dying in France on October 7, 1918. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France.

Just days after her husband's death, Amelia - who was pregnant at the time- came down with the Spanish Influenza that was going around on an pandemic scale.

Soon after getting ill, Amelia also developed pneumonia. She gave birth to a stillborn son on October 17, then passed away the next day at her home a little over a week after coming down with the disease. She was twenty-four years old.
Daughter of Joseph and Julia Foth Gerstner.

She married Oklahoma-native Bryce Edwin Davis on September 28, 1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Her husband fought valiantly in World War I before being dying in France on October 7, 1918. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France.

Just days after her husband's death, Amelia - who was pregnant at the time- came down with the Spanish Influenza that was going around on an pandemic scale.

Soon after getting ill, Amelia also developed pneumonia. She gave birth to a stillborn son on October 17, then passed away the next day at her home a little over a week after coming down with the disease. She was twenty-four years old.


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  • Created by: Chantel
  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85031138/amelia_josephine-davis: accessed ), memorial page for Amelia Josephine Gerstner Davis (16 Nov 1893–18 Oct 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 85031138, citing Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA; Maintained by Chantel (contributor 47171177).