The Shemwell Family

Reba Mynatt1906

Name
Reba Mynatt
Given names
Reba
Surname
Mynatt
Birth about 1906 32 25
Birth of a brotherPaul Mynatt
about 1908 (Age 2 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherRev. James Thomas Acuff
August 2, 1915 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a brotherFred Mynatt
September 25, 1915 (Age 9 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 10 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Death of a fatherHugh Early Mynatt
November 16, 1918 (Age 12 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 11 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 12 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 motherBertha Belle Acuff
July 4, 1921 (Age 15 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 23 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 maternal grandmotherMelvina Francis “Fannie” Kidwell
October 24, 1931 (Age 25 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
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 44 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
Death of a sisterCarrie Rosalie Mynatt
March 10, 1975 (Age 69 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 40 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 brotherFred Mynatt
February 2, 2003 (Age 97 years)
Deathunknown

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father
mother
elder sister
Otie Myrtle Mynatt
Birth: November 18, 1901 28 21Union, Tennessee, United States
Death:
17 months
elder sister
Carrie Rosalie Mynatt
Birth: April 9, 1903 29 23Luttrell, Union, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 10, 1975Carrollton, Carroll, Georgia, United States
4 years
herself
3 years
younger brother
8 years
younger brother
Fred Mynatt
Birth: September 25, 1915 42 35Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
Death: February 2, 2003West Memphis, Crittenden, Arkansas, United States
brother
Private

Reba Mynatt has 8 first cousins recorded