The Shemwell Family

Ada Bell GriffeyAge: 53 years18771930

Name
Ada Bell Griffey
Given names
Ada Bell
Surname
Griffey
Married name
Ada Bell Lewis
Birth July 2, 1877

MarriageJohn Warden LewisView this family
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Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 5 months)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 20 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 daughter
#1
Ruth Evelyn Lewis
January 20, 1904 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 38 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 39 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 40 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 granddaughter
#1
Hope Evelyn Knight
November 7, 1925 (Age 48 years)
Birth of a grandson
#2
William Lewis “Bill” Knight Sr.
March 11, 1929 (Age 51 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 52 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
Death September 27, 1930 (Age 53 years)

Family with John Warden Lewis - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage:
daughter
Ruth Evelyn Lewis
Birth: January 20, 1904 33 26Houston, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 13, 1987Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States