Edith Estelle Biddix

Edith Estelle Biddix
October 14, 1921 - April 12, 1936

From an interview with my grandmother, Marion Ardella Biddix Hall:

"Estelle was about 15 when the 1936 flu epidemic came through the mountains and about the whole family got it. Estelle had just gotten over appendicitis and I don't know if it ruptured and killed her or if the flu killed her. She died the day before Easter. They buried her at McKinney Gap.

"Estelle had a little sewing bag that had a drawstring. She had different pictures of state birds that she had gotten from school and she kept them in that little bag.

"When Graham was little, she would carry him on her hip a lot. I think she wrote Geneva a letter one time. Mama had a picture of her and a woman borrowed it from her and never returned it."

To my knowledge, no other picture exists of Estelle. She would be the first of three children that Papa and Ma would lose in 1936.