The Shemwell Family

Alma Marie ShemwellAge: 10 years19131923

Name
Alma Marie Shemwell
Given names
Alma Marie
Surname
Shemwell
Birth July 6, 1913 23 25
Birth of a brotherThomas Thurman Shemwell
March 13, 1916 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 2 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 3 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 4 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/
Birth of a sisterSarah Elizabeth Shemwell
January 6, 1919 (Age 5 years)
Census January 15, 1920 (Age 6 years)
Death November 11, 1923 (Age 10 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Gant Cemetery
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father
mother
Marriage: November 1910
11 months
elder sister
Alpha Lee “Alfie” Shemwell
Birth: September 28, 1911 22 23Todd, Kentucky, United States
Death: February 22, 1991Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky, United States
21 months
herself
Alma Marie Shemwell
Birth: July 6, 1913 23 25Todd, Kentucky, United States
Death: November 11, 1923Logan, Kentucky, United States
3 years
younger brother
Thomas Thurman Shemwell
Birth: March 13, 1916 26 28Logan, Kentucky, United States
Death: February 10, 1997Holly, Oakland, Michigan, United States
3 years
younger sister
9 years
younger sister
Violet Mae Shemwell
Birth: June 23, 1927 37 39Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky, United States
Death: December 14, 2009Concord, Jackson, Michigan, United States

Alma Marie Shemwell has 22 first cousins recorded

Census1920 United States - Census transcript - Noble John Shemwell - Household

Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky

NameRelationHomeMortSexRaceAgeConditionImmNatNatYSchoolRWBPLangFBPFather langMBPMother langEngOccupationIndEmp
Shemwell, NobleheadMW30MKYKYKYFarmerGeneral farm
Shemwell, CorawifeFW32MKYTNKY
Shemwell, AlfiedaughterFW8SKYKYKY
Shemwell, AlmadaughterFW6SKYKYKY
Shemwell, ThurmonsonMW3-9mSKYKYKY
Shemwell, ElizabethdaughterFW11mSKYKYKY
White, Harkbrother in lawMW25SKYTNKYFarm laborWorking out

says Hark is son in law - not... -b