The Shemwell Family

Mammie Louise HodgesAge: 3 years19161919

Name
Mammie Louise Hodges
Given names
Mammie Louise
Surname
Hodges
Birth 1916 27 28
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916

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 12 months)

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 2 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/
Death August 5, 1919 (Age 3 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Elmwood Cemetery
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father
Eugene Talmadge “E T” Hodges
Birth: June 19, 1888 39 29Houston, Tennessee, United States
Death: May 17, 1967Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
mother
Zora May Shemwell
Birth: December 20, 1887 38 34Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 5, 1956Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: April 3, 1912Henry, Tennessee, United States
18 months
elder sister
Thedis Hodges
Birth: September 22, 1913 25 25Tennessee, United States
Death: September 22, 1998Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
3 years
herself
Mammie Louise Hodges
Birth: 1916 27 28Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 5, 1919Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States