The Shemwell Family

John Thomas BassettAge: 66 years18741941

Name
John Thomas Bassett
Given names
John Thomas
Surname
Bassett
Birth July 15, 1874 30 26

Birth of a brotherJames Franklin Bassett
January 22, 1876 (Age 18 months)

Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 3 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 brotherEugene Cade Bassett
March 1879 (Age 4 years)

Birth of a brotherRichard Hudson Bassett
August 31, 1879 (Age 5 years)

Birth of a brotherRoland Jackson Bassett
August 31, 1879 (Age 5 years)

Birth of a brotherLuther Dave Bassett
March 10, 1884 (Age 9 years)

Birth of a brotherWyatt L Bassett
December 18, 1887 (Age 13 years)

Birth of a sisterArrie Lucindy Bassett
March 3, 1889 (Age 14 years)

Birth of a brotherBennie Newton Bassett
October 26, 1891 (Age 17 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 23 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 maternal grandfatherLee Roy Jackson
March 19, 1904 (Age 29 years)
Death of a brotherEugene Cade Bassett
before 1905 (Age 30 years)

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 41 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 42 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 43 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 brotherWilliam L Bassett
1920 (Age 45 years)

Death of a fatherIsaac Newton Bassett
January 21, 1921 (Age 46 years)
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
Death of a motherMary Elizabeth Jackson
October 8, 1931 (Age 57 years)

Death March 24, 1941 (Age 66 years)

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: November 29, 1866
2 years
elder brother
7 years
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18 months
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
6 months
younger brother
younger brother
5 years
younger brother
4 years
younger brother
14 months
younger sister
3 years
younger brother

John Thomas Bassett has 7 first cousins recorded

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