LOCAL HEROINES OF HISTORY
Pictured are Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Catharine Siena Speak, Emmanuel Dyer, Mary Leander Eiting, Mary Clarissa Reith, and Christiana Snyder with others in 1905-1906 who lived at St. Helena Convent and served as nurses at Camp Zachary Taylor during the Influenza Pandemic in the Fall of 1918.
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth were some of the first to answer when the 1918 Influenza Pandemic hit. At its onset, a number of SCNs were already volunteering at various hospitals, orphanages, and military camps. When influenza struck these camps, there were far more ill than there were nurses to care for them, most notably at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, KY. At Camp Taylor, many women religious from around the area were called on for their aid, numbering eighty-five Sisters in total coming from five congregations. Thirty-four of these were Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Due to such a large influx of both patients and nurses, barracks were converted into makeshift hospitals for the soldiers and housing for the Sisters, as well as other lay nurses.
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