Mary Adlaide SmithAge: 73 years1866–1939
- Name
- Mary Adlaide Smith
- Given names
- Mary Adlaide
- Surname
- Smith
- Married name
- Mary Adlaide Short
 Birth | August 29, 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 4 months)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 4 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 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 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Albert Agustus “Gus” Short — View this family February 27, 1883 (Age 16 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 years)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 37 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Georgia Nell Short about 1908 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 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 50 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 51 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 55 years) |
| Death of a husband | Albert Agustus “Gus” Short August 19, 1922 (Age 55 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
 Death | December 14, 1939 (Age 73 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Maynard Cemetery |
| Family with parents |
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Amos Smith Death: |
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Indiana Missouri Spencer Death: |
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Marriage: — |
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| herself |
Mary Adlaide Smith Birth: August 29, 1866 — Milledgeville, McNairy, Tennessee, United States Death: December 14, 1939 — Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States |
| Family with Albert Agustus “Gus” Short |
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Albert Agustus “Gus” Short Birth: December 6, 1860 — Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States Death: August 19, 1922 — Maynard, Randolph, Arkansas, United States |
| herself |
Mary Adlaide Smith Birth: August 29, 1866 — Milledgeville, McNairy, Tennessee, United States Death: December 14, 1939 — Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States |
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Marriage: February 27, 1883 — Milledgeville, McNairy, Tennessee, United States |
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21 years daughter |
Vera Adlade Short Birth: September 21, 1903 42 37 — Middlebrook, Randolph, Arkansas, United States Death: April 13, 1990 — Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States |
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5 years daughter |
Georgia Nell Short Birth: about 1908 47 41 — Randolph, Arkansas, United States Death: |