The Shemwell Family

Name
Mary W Clark
Given names
Mary W
Surname
Clark
Married name
Mary W Cunningham
Birth 1867 44 34
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867
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
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
Census July 5, 1870 (Age 3 years)
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
Census June 3, 1880 (Age 13 years)
MarriageWilliam Lee CunninghamView this family
1887 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Infant Son Cunningham
January 10, 1888 (Age 21 years)
Death of a sonInfant Son Cunningham
January 10, 1888 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Bessie Lee Cunningham
March 3, 1889 (Age 22 years)

Birth of a daughter
#3
Beulah May Cunningham
December 4, 1891 (Age 24 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
Death of a fatherRev. John Fox Clark
February 9, 1899 (Age 32 years)
Census June 19, 1900 (Age 33 years)
Census April 2, 1910 (Age 43 years)
Death of a half-brotherRobert Benjamin Clark
March 20, 1913 (Age 46 years)
Death of a daughterBessie Lee Cunningham
June 11, 1913 (Age 46 years)
Marriage of a childGeorge Curtis McClaryBeulah May CunninghamView this family
February 22, 1916 (Age 49 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/
Census January 19, 1920 (Age 53 years)
Death of a motherMary Elizabeth Marguerite Webb
July 15, 1921 (Age 54 years)

Death October 27, 1926 (Age 59 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Peninsula Cemetery
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