The Shemwell Family

Name
Edith Odessa Musick
Given names
Edith Odessa
Surname
Musick
Married name
Edith Odessa Bowen
Birth October 1, 1905 26 27
Birth of a brotherDerrell Cherry Musick
July 22, 1907 (Age 21 months)
Census April 28, 1910 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a brotherLawrence Arnold Musick
August 13, 1912 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 10 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Birth of a sisterZada Catherine Musick
August 9, 1917 (Age 11 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherLucinda Mohelen “Helen” McClish
February 3, 1918 (Age 12 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 11 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 12 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 March 10, 1920 (Age 14 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherJoseph Howard “Joe” Cherry
February 7, 1928 (Age 22 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherHenry Musick
October 1, 1928 (Age 23 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 24 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 11, 1930 (Age 24 years)
Death of a brotherLawrence Arnold Musick
December 8, 1931 (Age 26 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherElizabeth Ann “Eliza” Burkett
March 13, 1934 (Age 28 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 36 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
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 44 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 fatherJohn W Musick
September 11, 1967 (Age 61 years)

Death of a sisterArdis Inez Musick
October 12, 1973 (Age 68 years)
Death of a brotherVernon Hiram Musick
March 2, 1974 (Age 68 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 40 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 motherCuca Cherry
June 20, 1977 (Age 71 years)
Death of a husbandRev. Fred Cleo Bowen
May 10, 1996 (Age 90 years)
Death of a brotherDerrell Cherry Musick
March 25, 1999 (Age 93 years)
Death of a sisterZada Catherine Musick
July 1, 2000 (Age 94 years)
Death February 15, 2004 (Age 98 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Strouds Creek Cemetery
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