The Shemwell Family

Name
Mary Nancy “Mollie” Shemwell
Given names
Mary Nancy
Surname
Shemwell
Married name
Mary Nancy Kenner
Nickname
Mollie
Note: Mattie?
Birth October 26, 1865 29 26
MarriageView this family
unknown

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 14 months)
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 14 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Birth of a sisterKatie Lofene Shemwell
February 27, 1869 (Age 3 years)
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 3 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 June 1, 1870 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a brotherJames Thomas “Bud” Shemwell
June 2, 1872 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a brotherCharles Emmet Shemwell
June 5, 1874 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a brotherWalter Denson Shemwell
March 3, 1876 (Age 10 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherElizabeth Floyd
August 21, 1878 (Age 12 years)
Cause: Rheumatic fever
Death of a brotherWalter Denson Shemwell
December 20, 1878 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 12 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Birth of a brotherSamuel Edward Shemwell
April 11, 1879 (Age 13 years)
Census June 1, 1880 (Age 14 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherJames Marquis “Squire Jim” Shemwell
November 4, 1880 (Age 15 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Clair Shemwell
January 14, 1885 (Age 19 years)
Note: I think... Clair is illegitimate. No father on death cert. Mollie is mispelled in 1880 census. Clair is with Grandparents in 1900-b
Death of a sisterSara Elizabeth “Annie” Shemwell
February 1890 (Age 24 years)
Death of a sisterPermelia A Shemwell
November 6, 1892 (Age 27 years)

Religious marriageJames Thomas KennerView this family
November 13, 1892 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Zeb Kenner
June 28, 1893 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#3
Robert B Kenner
September 11, 1897 (Age 31 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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
Census June 19, 1900 (Age 34 years)
Birth of a son
#4
Claude Kenner
May 20, 1902 (Age 36 years)
Death of a fatherSamuel Thomas Shemwell
March 18, 1903 (Age 37 years)
Marriage of a childClair ShemwellAllie Lou SullivanView this family
Type: Religious marriage
January 4, 1910 (Age 44 years)
Census April 30, 1910 (Age 44 years)
Death of a sonClair Shemwell
June 23, 1911 (Age 45 years)
Cause: Typhoid Fever
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 50 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 51 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 52 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 27, 1920 (Age 54 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#1
Thelma Lucille Kenner
December 17, 1924 (Age 59 years)

Death of a motherArmina M “Mina” Shemwell
December 28, 1928 (Age 63 years)
Address: Near Sharon Grove
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 63 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
Census April 10, 1930 (Age 64 years)
Death of a sisterKatie Lofene Shemwell
January 11, 1931 (Age 65 years)
Cause: Lobar pneumonia
Marriage of a childZeb KennerRuby Norine WolffView this family
August 26, 1933 (Age 67 years)
Death of a husbandJames Thomas Kenner
April 22, 1934 (Age 68 years)
Death November 6, 1935 (Age 70 years)

Note: Death Cert. gives alt. Birth Date
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Gant Cemetery
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