John's great-uncle Stokes Goodrich dies of tuberculosis (1930)
story · status: told 2× · last event: mentioned (2025-04-15)
John's great-uncle Stokes Goodrich died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium on 18 May 1930, aged 29, despite the best of care. John retold it in his 2025 tuberculosis book video and named it again when talking about TB in American history.
Origin known from later mentions
1930 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2024, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
About: Stokes Goodrich, Charles Goodrich, tuberculosis
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-12 | told | John's great-uncle Stokes died of tuberculosis in 1930, when TB was still one of the leading causes of death in the United States. | How We End TB 00:00:29 |
| 2025-02-25 (happened 1930-05-18) | retold | John retells how his great-uncle Stokes Goodrich, diagnosed with miliary TB, grew worse in an Asheville sanatorium and died on May 18, 1930, aged 29. | EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:03:50 |
| 2025-04-15 | mentioned | John says tuberculosis is a big part of American history: his great-uncle died of TB. | Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? 00:13:38 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John's great-uncle Stokes Goodrich was born in 1900 in rural Tennessee, raised in a house built by John's great-grandfather Charles, a country doctor in Franklin County. — 00:01:57
- 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John: Stokes was a sickly child; coffee and sweets from a family friend were blamed, after which he had the worst case of typhoid his great-grandfather saw recover. — 00:01:57
- 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John: At 18 in 1918 Stokes nearly died in the influenza pandemic while working at a munitions factory, then in 1920 became a lineman for Alabama Power and Light. — 00:02:43
- 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John: After coughing up blood, Stokes was X-rayed in Gadsden and found to have miliary TB; the technician said he had never seen such a case live over two months. Stokes entered an Asheville sanatorium. — 00:03:13
- 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John often wonders what it was like for his great-grandfather, a trained doctor, to be unable to save his own son. — 00:03:50