The Shemwell Family

Mary M WoodcockAge: 71 years18741945

Name
Mary M Woodcock
Given names
Mary M
Surname
Woodcock
Married name
Mary M Barnes
Birth 1874
MarriageThomas Allen BarnesView this family
unknown

Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 4 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 24 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
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 42 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Birth of a daughter
#1
Mary Virginia Barnes
December 8, 1917 (Age 43 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 43 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 44 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 55 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
Marriage of a childJ Marshal WeaksMary Virginia BarnesView this family
August 6, 1936 (Age 62 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 67 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
Death February 1945 (Age 71 years)
Family with Thomas Allen Barnes - View this family
husband
Thomas Allen Barnes
Birth: April 2, 1870Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: November 27, 1959Stewart, Tennessee, United States
herself
Mary M Woodcock
Birth: 1874Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: February 1945Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Marriage:
daughter
Mary Virginia Barnes
Birth: December 8, 1917 47 43Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: February 21, 2001Clare, Clare, Michigan, United States

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