pg 602 of above book with passage mentioning Hewitt

"Recalling the dreaded flu epidemic which continued on past Christmas, subduing the Yule observance, Mrs Mary Hewitt, 1300 Smith St, says she was convalescing Nov 11 when a brother carried her down the stairs from an apartment over her dad's bakery so she could sit on a bread-box in front of the store to see the wild celebrations in the street.

She also says that her fiance then and later husband, Earle Hewitt, was on a transatlantic troop ship "returning hundreds of pine boxes holding bodies of our dear boys in service, many of whom died overseas with the flu." She quoted Earle as stating that "the boxes would be piled like cord wood on the dock in New York City after arrival." "