The Shemwell Family

Name
Ola Ruth Leonard
Given names
Ola Ruth
Surname
Leonard
Married name
Ola Ruth Agner
Birth November 20, 1898 23 21
Census June 19, 1900 (Age 18 months)
Birth of a brotherStahle Hartman Leonard
November 20, 1900 (Age 2 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherSarah Lilly Shemwell
January 30, 1903 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterThelma O Leonard
August 31, 1903 (Age 4 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherJoseph Bentley Leonard
October 4, 1904 (Age 5 years)

Birth of a brotherWalter James Leonard Jr.
January 12, 1905 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a brotherArthur Gregory Leonard
February 10, 1907 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a sisterMary Helen Leonard
January 16, 1910 (Age 11 years)
Census May 3, 1910 (Age 11 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherMalinda Clementine Earnhardt
October 8, 1913 (Age 14 years)

Birth of a brotherRupert Alexander Leonard
March 15, 1915 (Age 16 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 17 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 maternal grandfatherPinkney Alexander Hartman
August 17, 1917 (Age 18 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 18 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 19 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 21, 1920 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Edwin Leonard
November 15, 1923 (Age 24 years)
MarriageErnest Alexander AgnerView this family
June 14, 1924 (Age 25 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Evelyn Danay Agner
August 20, 1925 (Age 26 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Jean Annette Agner
April 28, 1928 (Age 29 years)
Death of a motherAnnie Lousetta Hartman
July 10, 1928 (Age 29 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 30 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
Census April 5, 1930 (Age 31 years)
Census April 2, 1940 (Age 41 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 43 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
Death of a sisterThelma O Leonard
April 2, 1950 (Age 51 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 51 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 fatherWalter James Leonard
August 25, 1956 (Age 57 years)
Death of a brotherStahle Hartman Leonard
March 3, 1965 (Age 66 years)
Death of a brotherRupert Alexander Leonard
July 8, 1971 (Age 72 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 47 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 sisterMary Helen Leonard
October 14, 1978 (Age 79 years)
Death of a brotherWalter James Leonard Jr.
January 31, 1981 (Age 82 years)
Death of a brotherArthur Gregory Leonard
June 8, 1986 (Age 87 years)
Death October 9, 1989 (Age 90 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Union Lutheran Church Cemetery
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