The Shemwell Family

Name
Cecil Porter Shaver
Given names
Cecil Porter
Surname
Shaver
Birth October 14, 1895 23 21
Birth of a sisterTressie I Shaver
February 25, 1897 (Age 16 months)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 2 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
Birth of a brotherCarl Shaver
September 16, 1898 (Age 2 years)
Census June 20, 1900 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a brotherRaymond Elbert Shaver
December 7, 1900 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a sisterHelen Faye Shaver
June 4, 1902 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a sisterHilda Shaver
June 4, 1902 (Age 6 years)
Death of a sisterHilda Shaver
June 4, 1902 (Age 6 years)
Death of a brotherCarl Shaver
August 2, 1902 (Age 6 years)

Census April 23, 1910 (Age 14 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 20 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 grandmotherLucinda Mohelen “Helen” McClish
February 3, 1918 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 21 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 22 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 March 11, 1918 (Age 22 years)

Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Strouds Creek Cemetery
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