 Birth | 1857 |
 Marriage | Jasper Frank Higgins — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 4 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 10 years)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 10 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 12 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 |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 21 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 daughter#1 | Lida Higgins July 14, 1879 (Age 22 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Emma H Higgins February 20, 1887 (Age 30 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Emmett Higgins 1890 (Age 33 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 41 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 of a child | Charles Emmet Shemwell — Lida Higgins — View this family about December 6, 1899 (Age 42 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Pearl “Pearlie” Shemwell September 22, 1900 (Age 43 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | Elmer Shemwell August 25, 1902 (Age 45 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | Lawrence Shemwell August 7, 1904 (Age 47 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Samuel Edward Shemwell — Emma H Higgins — View this family Type: Religious marriage December 22, 1905 (Age 48 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | Roxie Anne Shemwell September 12, 1906 (Age 49 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | Loyce Alpha Shemwell December 17, 1908 (Age 51 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #6 | Earl Baker Shemwell January 1, 1912 (Age 55 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #7 | Marvin Clay Shemwell October 31, 1913 (Age 56 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 59 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 60 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 61 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 72 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 grandson | Elmer Shemwell July 23, 1934 (Age 77 years) |
| Death of a husband | Jasper Frank Higgins 1935 (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Sylvester Lewis “Cy” Shemwell — Emma H Higgins — View this family estimated 1938 (Age 81 years) |
 Death | 1939 (Age 82 years) |