The Shemwell Family

Margaret SloanAge: 2 years19161918

Name
Margaret Sloan
Given names
Margaret
Surname
Sloan
Birth July 6, 1916 22 23
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916

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 5 months)

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 17 months)

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 15, 1918 (Age 2 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Rose Hill Cemetery
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father
Guy George Sloan
Birth: July 27, 1893 26 27Tecumseh, Cherokee, Alabama, United States
Death: June 17, 1966Rockmart, Polk, Georgia, United States
mother
Maggie Algood
Birth: July 9, 1892Walton, Georgia, United States
Death: December 1, 1986Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia, United States
Marriage:
herself
Margaret Sloan
Birth: July 6, 1916 22 23Rockmart, Polk, Georgia, United States
Death: September 15, 1918Rockmart, Polk, Georgia, United States