May Eugenia BurnsAge: 68 years1867–1936
- Name
- May Eugenia Burns
- Given names
- May Eugenia
- Surname
- Burns
- Married name
- May Eugenia Mitchell
 Birth | October 25, 1867 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: 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 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 14 months)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 10 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 30 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 |
 Marriage | Augustus Ebin “Gus” Mitchell — View this family October 6, 1901 (Age 33 years) |
 Census | April 19, 1910 (Age 42 years) |
 Birth of a son#1 | Paul Sheridan Mitchell June 14, 1910 (Age 42 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 50 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 6, 1920 (Age 52 years) |
| Death of a husband | Augustus Ebin “Gus” Mitchell April 21, 1920 (Age 52 years) Cause: Lukemia |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 61 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 | February 2, 1936 (Age 68 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Maple Park Cemetery |
| Family with Augustus Ebin “Gus” Mitchell |
| husband |
Augustus Ebin “Gus” Mitchell Birth: December 3, 1860 42 34 — Todd, Kentucky, United States Death: April 21, 1920 — Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States |
| herself |
May Eugenia Burns Birth: October 25, 1867 — Nashville, Washington, Illinois, United States Death: February 2, 1936 — Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States |
|
Marriage: October 6, 1901 — Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky, United States |
|
|
9 years son |
Paul Sheridan Mitchell Birth: June 14, 1910 49 42 — Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States Death: April 16, 1984 — Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States |
| Family with … Whitehead |
| husband |
… Whitehead Death: |
| herself |
May Eugenia Burns Birth: October 25, 1867 — Nashville, Washington, Illinois, United States Death: February 2, 1936 — Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States |
No family available
| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Augustus Ebin “Gus” Mitchell - Household
1253 Floyd Street Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Augustus Ebin “Gus” Mitchell - Household
2022 Barringer Avenue Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
|