The Shemwell Family

Grace Ella BramlettAge: 82 years19061989

Name
Grace Ella Bramlett
Given names
Grace Ella
Surname
Bramlett
Married name
Grace Ella Powers
Birth November 18, 1906
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 9 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 10 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 11 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 22 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 son
#1
Harold Mathew Powers
September 21, 1938 (Age 31 years)
Census April 13, 1940 (Age 33 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Lovella Powers
July 20, 1940 (Age 33 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 35 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
Census April 12, 1950 (Age 43 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 43 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 39 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 husbandPaul Millard Powers
February 1, 1987 (Age 80 years)
Death January 27, 1989 (Age 82 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: East Linwood Cemetery
Family with Paul Millard Powers - View this family
husband
Paul Millard Powers
Birth: February 11, 1910 23 17Corning, Clay, Arkansas, United States
Death: February 1, 1987Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States
herself
Grace Ella Bramlett
Birth: November 18, 1906Fremont, Carter, Missouri, United States
Death: January 27, 1989Brimfield, Peoria, Illinois, United States
daughter
Private
son
Private
son
Private
son
Harold Mathew Powers
Birth: September 21, 1938 28 31Fisk, Butler, Missouri, United States
Death: March 25, 2018San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States
22 months
daughter
Lovella Powers
Birth: July 20, 1940 30 33Missouri, United States
Death: July 21, 1990
son
Private

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