The Shemwell Family

Name
Euphalee M Shemwell
Given names
Euphalee M
Surname
Shemwell
Birth December 1, 1906 25 28
Birth of a brotherColeman W Shemwell
August 23, 1909 (Age 2 years)
Census May 6, 1910 (Age 3 years)
Education
Claymour School
November 1913 (Age 6 years)

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 9 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 10 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 11 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 19, 1920 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 22 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 April 28, 1937 (Age 30 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery
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