Remembering Katherine Elsie Miller Graham

On Tuesday the 23rd of July 1918 the Stirling Observer acknowledged A “Mrs A.G Graham” as “the first in Stirling to succumb to Spanish influenza”. Although the initials are different, I figured out that this is Katherine.

According to the Glasgow Herald she died “suddenly” at her home 3 Gladstone Place on the 3rd of July aged seventy-three. She was married to merchant Alexander who was present when she died. She was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman who was Vicar of Greenwich and Canon of Rochester. The Graham family visited Stirling frequently before relocating there in 1897.

She is interred in Logie Churchyard. The headstone is heavily weathered but wholly legible.

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