The Shemwell Family

Ralph Austin WorleyAge: 67 years19121980

Name
Ralph Austin Worley
Given names
Ralph Austin
Surname
Worley
Birth November 18, 1912
Occupation
Shreveport Oilman

Occupation
Presidential Advisor -L.B. Johnson

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 3 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 4 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 5 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 16 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
Birth of a daughter
#1
Carolyn Ernestine Worley
September 5, 1935 (Age 22 years)
Death of a daughterCarolyn Ernestine Worley
September 5, 1935 (Age 22 years)
Census April 1, 1940 (Age 27 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 29 years)

Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 37 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 33 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death June 22, 1980 (Age 67 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Forest Park Cemetery
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Ralph Austin Worley
Birth: November 18, 1912Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States
Death: June 22, 1980Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States
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himself
Ralph Austin Worley
Birth: November 18, 1912Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States
Death: June 22, 1980Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States
wife
daughter
Carolyn Ernestine Worley
Birth: September 5, 1935 22 26Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States
Death: September 5, 1935Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States
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John Monroe Ellis Jr. + Bernice Lorraine Shemwell - View this family
wife’s husband
John Monroe Ellis Jr.
Birth: July 25, 1908Denham Springs, Livingston, Louisiana, United States
Death: October 29, 1989
wife
Marriage:

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Census1940 United States - Census transcript - Ralph Austin Worley - Household

Shreveport, Caddo, La

NameRelationSexRaceAgeBPOccupationIndustry
Ralph A WorleyheadMW27LAExecutiveWholesale Oil
Bernice ShemwellwifeFW31COStenographerLegal
Linnie Shemwellmother-in-lawFW60TN