The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	December 6, 1860 Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States
Historical Event	American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 3 months) Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event	The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 6 years) Alaska, USA Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 6 years) New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event	Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 8 years) Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 17 years) Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Marriage	Mary Adlaide Smith — View this family February 27, 1883 (Age 22 years) Milledgeville, McNairy, Tennessee, United States
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 37 years) Cuba Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War
Birth of a daughter #1	Vera Adlade Short September 21, 1903 (Age 42 years) Middlebrook, Randolph, Arkansas, United States
Birth of a daughter #2	Georgia Nell Short about 1908 (Age 47 years) Randolph, Arkansas, United States
Historical Event	Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 55 years) Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Historical Event	World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 56 years) Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Historical Event	Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 57 years) Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Marriage of a child	Jefferson Davis Shemwell — Vera Adlade Short — View this family September 4, 1921 (Age 60 years) Randolph, Arkansas, United States
Death	August 19, 1922 (Age 61 years) Maynard, Randolph, Arkansas, United States
Burial	Maynard Cemetery, Maynard, Randolph, Arkansas, United States Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Maynard Cemetery

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father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Martha Jane Searcy Albert Agustus “Gus” Short Louis Calvin Short Death:
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Louis Calvin Short Albert Agustus “Gus” Short Martha Jane Searcy Death:
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himself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Mary Adlaide Smith Vera Adlade Short Georgia Nell Short Albert Agustus “Gus” Short Birth: December 6, 1860 — Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States Death: August 19, 1922 — Maynard, Randolph, Arkansas, United States

Family with Mary Adlaide Smith - View this family

himself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Mary Adlaide Smith Vera Adlade Short Georgia Nell Short Albert Agustus “Gus” Short Birth: December 6, 1860 — Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States Death: August 19, 1922 — Maynard, Randolph, Arkansas, United States
wife	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Albert Agustus “Gus” Short Vera Adlade Short Georgia Nell Short Mary Adlaide Smith Birth: August 29, 1866 — Milledgeville, McNairy, Tennessee, United States Death: December 14, 1939 — Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
	Marriage: February 27, 1883 — Milledgeville, McNairy, Tennessee, United States
21 years daughter	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Jefferson Davis Shemwell Vera Adlade Short Birth: September 21, 1903 42 37 — Middlebrook, Randolph, Arkansas, United States Death: April 13, 1990 — Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
5 years daughter	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse H L McDonald Georgia Nell Short Birth: about 1908 47 41 — Randolph, Arkansas, United States Death:

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Family with parents
father Parents (unknown)	Louis Calvin Short –
mother Parents (unknown)	Martha Jane Searcy –
himself Family Mary Adlaide Smith Vera Adlade Short Georgia Nell Short	Albert Agustus “Gus” Short 1860–1922
Family with Mary Adlaide Smith
himself Parents Louis Calvin Short Martha Jane Searcy	Albert Agustus “Gus” Short 1860–1922
wife Parents Amos Smith Indiana Missouri Spencer	Mary Adlaide Smith 1866–1939
daughter Family Jefferson Davis Shemwell	Vera Adlade Short 1903–1990
daughter Family H L McDonald	Georgia Nell Short 1908–