The Shemwell Family

Name
Margaret Caroline “Maggie” Miller
Given names
Margaret Caroline
Surname
Miller
Married name
Maggie Carolina Shemwell
Nickname
Maggie
Birth December 24, 1876 39
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 12 months)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Census June 14, 1880 (Age 3 years)
Religious marriageJames Elbert ShemwellView this family
May 29, 1895 (Age 18 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Harry E Shemwell
September 27, 1896 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 21 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
Census June 1, 1900 (Age 23 years)
Address: 305 Twelfth Street
Death of a sonHarry E Shemwell
December 27, 1900 (Age 24 years)
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 33 years)

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 39 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 40 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 41 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 1920 (Age 43 years)
Address: Blue Ridge, District 0048
Death of a fatherGeorge Henry Miller
1923 (Age 46 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 March 24, 1930 (Age 53 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Evergreen Cemetery
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