John Wesley HendricksonAge: 75 years1865–1940
- Name
- John Wesley Hendrickson
- Given names
- John Wesley
- Surname
- Hendrickson
 Birth | 1865 23 25 |
 Marriage | Sarah … — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 2 years)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 2 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
 Birth of a sister | Martha Jane Hendrickson February 11, 1869 (Age 4 years) |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 4 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 13 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 33 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 sister | Martha Jane Hendrickson April 27, 1911 (Age 46 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 51 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 52 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 53 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 father | James Monroe Hendrickson June 30, 1921 (Age 56 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 64 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 mother | Celia Ann Smith August 16, 1934 (Age 69 years) |
 Death | January 20, 1940 (Age 75 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
James Monroe Hendrickson Birth: April 7, 1841 Death: June 30, 1921 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
| mother |
Celia Ann Smith Birth: November 20, 1839 — Kentucky, United States Death: August 16, 1934 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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| younger sister |
Martha Jane Hendrickson Birth: February 11, 1869 27 29 Death: April 27, 1911 |
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John Wesley Hendrickson Birth: 1865 23 25 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States Death: January 20, 1940 — Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
| Family with Sarah … |
| himself |
John Wesley Hendrickson Birth: 1865 23 25 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States Death: January 20, 1940 — Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
| wife |
Sarah … Death: |
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