The Shemwell Family

Margaret Rebecca PollardAge: 75 years19121988

Name
Margaret Rebecca Pollard
Given names
Margaret Rebecca
Surname
Pollard
Birth December 4, 1912 30 28
Birth of a brotherRaymond LeRoy Pollard
December 25, 1914 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 3 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 4 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 5 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 10, 1920 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 16 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 of a maternal grandmotherSarah Margaret McMillan
February 3, 1934 (Age 21 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherWilliam Howard Slaughter
December 27, 1937 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 28 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 37 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 fatherGeorge Wiley Pollard
October 2, 1966 (Age 53 years)
Death of a motherOllie Slaughter
1971 (Age 58 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 33 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 July 4, 1988 (Age 75 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: McMillan Cemetery
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father
George Wiley Pollard
Birth: January 6, 1882Houston, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 2, 1966Erin, Houston, Tennessee, United States
mother
Marriage: September 13, 1911Houston, Tennessee, United States
15 months
herself
Margaret Rebecca Pollard
Birth: December 4, 1912 30 28Houston, Tennessee, United States
Death: July 4, 1988Houston, Tennessee, United States
2 years
younger brother
Raymond LeRoy Pollard
Birth: December 25, 1914 32 30Houston, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 12, 1989Alamo, Crockett, Tennessee, United States

Census1920 United States - Census transcript - George Wiley Pollard - Household

Walnut Street Houston, Tennessee

NameRelationHomeMortSexRaceAgeConditionImmNatNatYSchoolRWBPLangFBPFather langMBPMother langEngOccupationIndEmp
Pollard, George WheadMW38MTNTNTNBlacksmithWagon Shop
Pollard, OlliewifeFW35MTNTNTN
Pollard, MargueritedaughterFW7STNTNTN
Pollard, RaymondsonMW5STNTNTN