Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWIS;O99 III:1:83
But, Mom and Pop Railroad was down there and that was
all ~talians lived on Maryland Avenue down about, ah I guess
where that alley comes through there now from Maryland
Avenue above Lakewood Avenue. Houses there, all tole down.
Harvey: Do you remember the flu epidemic, M r , Lewis?
Anybody in your family catch it?
Lewis: No, our family was pretty lucky; a lot of them died
and the undertaker over there . . , of course them days you
used rock boxes before you put the caskets in. And of
course they used to put them together, the undertaker. But
they were dying: so fast they were sending them out: knocked
down - they used to pay us boys to put them together over
on his sidewalk. And then he'd take his horses and haul
them up to the graveyard. Of course, them days most all
of them was buried in St. Mary's in this neighborhood.
And when you were buried out in the other places you had to
take the rock boxes out there. ~ u we t all went around
there and nailed them together and we all nail them together.
Of course, they were put in the caskets, used to
have his horses in back of us, carriages back there, hearse
and all. This boy's father, older one. Of course, my grand-
father - 1 never knew him. I remember them talking about the
old gentleman's place down there, but he had the place down
there but people that lived in it before he moved into it,
Because they had moved out to Clipper before I was born,
went over on Chestnut Avenue. Old Man lived in one
end of the house, and lived up there for years,
but they lived up this end. Which you all pointed aut kids