The Shemwell Family

Ella Mary McMillanAge: 52 years18681921

Name
Ella Mary McMillan
Given names
Ella Mary
Surname
McMillan
Married name
Ella Mary Dennison
Birth October 5, 1868 45 35
MarriageWilliam R DennisonView this family
unknown

Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 2 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 9 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a motherMary A Hay
October 6, 1883 (Age 15 years)
Birth of a son
#1
William Stanley Dennison
1893 (Age 24 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 29 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 fatherJohn McMillan
October 1, 1899 (Age 30 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 47 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 48 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 49 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 September 12, 1921 (Age 52 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Decaturville City Cemetery
Family with parents - View this family
father
John McMillan
Birth: April 4, 1823 39 39Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 1, 1899Decaturville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
mother
Mary A Hay
Birth: January 24, 1833Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 6, 1883Decaturville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Marriage:
elder brother
Dr. John Gilbert McMillan
Birth: July 13, 1859 36 26Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: May 8, 1933Decaturville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
4 years
elder brother
William Issac McMillan
Birth: 1862 38 28Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: November 28, 1935Decaturville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
7 years
herself
Ella Mary McMillan
Birth: October 5, 1868 45 35Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: September 12, 1921Perryville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Family with William R Dennison - View this family
husband
William R Dennison
Birth: April 13, 1866Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: July 8, 1942Perryville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
herself
Ella Mary McMillan
Birth: October 5, 1868 45 35Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: September 12, 1921Perryville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Marriage:
son
William Stanley Dennison
Birth: 1893 26 24Perryville, Decatur, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 14, 1953Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States