The Shemwell Family

Bessie Breezeel1889

Name
Bessie Breezeel
Given names
Bessie
Surname
Breezeel
Birth 1889 26 19

twin: Jessie Breezeel
Birth
Jessie Breezeel
1889 26 19

Birth of a brotherJessie Breezeel
1889

twin: Bessie Breezeel
Birth of a sisterHenrietta “Etta” Breezeel
April 21, 1891 (Age 2 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherNancy Shemwell
1892 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherJesse Breezeel
1893 (Age 4 years)

Birth of a sisterDovie May Breezeel
1895 (Age 6 years)

Birth of a brotherWillis Roscoe Breezeel
1897 (Age 8 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherWillis Washington Breezeel
July 1897 (Age 8 years)
Death of a brotherJesse Breezeel
1898 (Age 9 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 9 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 brotherJack Breezeel
1899 (Age 10 years)

Death of a brotherJack Breezeel
1899 (Age 10 years)

Birth of a brotherJohn McCoy Breezeel
1900 (Age 11 years)

Birth of a sisterMattie Breezeel
1903 (Age 14 years)

Death of a sisterMattie Breezeel
1903 (Age 14 years)

Birth of a sisterNola Evelyn Breezeel
1904 (Age 15 years)

Birth of a sisterLaura Lillian Breezeel
1906 (Age 17 years)
Birth of a brotherWillie Breezeel
1908 (Age 19 years)

Death of a brotherWillie Breezeel
1909 (Age 20 years)

Death of a fatherGeorge Milas Breezeel
January 31, 1911 (Age 22 years)
Cause: Killed while felling a tree
Death of a motherMartha Jane Hendrickson
April 27, 1911 (Age 22 years)

Death of a sisterDovie May Breezeel
1914 (Age 25 years)

Death of a sisterHenrietta “Etta” Breezeel
August 24, 1915 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 27 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 28 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 29 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 of a maternal grandfatherJames Monroe Hendrickson
June 30, 1921 (Age 32 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 40 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 of a sisterNola Evelyn Breezeel
1932 (Age 43 years)

Death of a maternal grandmotherCelia Ann Smith
August 16, 1934 (Age 45 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 52 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 61 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 57 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 of a brotherJohn McCoy Breezeel
1987 (Age 98 years)

Death of a brotherWillis Roscoe Breezeel
1990 (Age 101 years)

Death of a sisterLaura Lillian Breezeel
1998 (Age 109 years)

Deathunknown

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mother
Marriage: calculated 1888
-6 months
elder brother
19 months
elder sister
2 years
herself
1 year
twin brother
2 years
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
3 years
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
2 years
younger brother
4 years
younger sister
2 years
younger sister
3 years
younger sister
3 years
younger brother

Bessie Breezeel has 25 first cousins recorded