The Shemwell Family

Melvin Ray ShuttAge: 60 years19121973

Name
Melvin Ray Shutt
Given names
Melvin Ray
Surname
Shutt
Birth May 4, 1912
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 3 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 4 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 5 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 17 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
Birth of a daughter
#1
Infant Daughter Shutt
April 23, 1935 (Age 22 years)
Death of a daughterInfant Daughter Shutt
April 23, 1935 (Age 22 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Lewis Jackson Shutt
July 14, 1936 (Age 24 years)
Death of a sonLewis Jackson Shutt
July 19, 1936 (Age 24 years)
Census April 4, 1940 (Age 27 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 29 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
Census April 17, 1950 (Age 37 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 37 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
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 33 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 March 25, 1973 (Age 60 years)
Family with Mable Pearl Newman - View this family
himself
Melvin Ray Shutt
Birth: May 4, 1912Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
Death: March 25, 1973Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States
wife
Mable Pearl Newman
Birth: December 20, 1914 35 36Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
Death: May 8, 1980St. Louis, Missouri, United States
daughter
Infant Daughter Shutt
Birth: April 23, 1935 22 20Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
Death: April 23, 1935Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
15 months
son
Lewis Jackson Shutt
Birth: July 14, 1936 24 21Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
Death: July 19, 1936Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
daughter
Private

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Census1940 United States - Census transcript - Melvin Ray Shutt - Household

Drakesboro, Muhlenberg, Kentucky

NameInfoRelationInfoHomeV/RFarmSexRaceAgeCondSchoolR/WBPCityCountyStateOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkWagesVetWar
Shutt, MelvinheadMW27MKYRLoganKYBlack SmithCoal Mine
Shutt, MablewifeXFW25MKYRLoganKY