The Shemwell Family

Charles Emanuel WeyandAge: 57 years18681925

Name
Charles Emanuel Weyand
Given names
Charles Emanuel
Surname
Weyand
Birth April 28, 1868
MarriageFlorence EllisView this family
unknown

Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 8 months)

Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 9 years)

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 29 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 son
#1
Clinton E Weyand
June 20, 1912 (Age 44 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 47 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 48 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 49 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 September 9, 1925 (Age 57 years)
Family with Florence Ellis - View this family
himself
Charles Emanuel Weyand
Birth: April 28, 1868Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: September 9, 1925Brooklyn, New York, United States
wife
Florence Ellis
Birth: January 5, 1879Illinois, United States
Death: October 15, 1969Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States
Marriage:
son
Clinton E Weyand
Birth: June 20, 1912 44 33New York, United States
Death: May 12, 1975Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

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