The Shemwell Family

Elmira “Minnie” BillingsleyAge: 25 years18651890

Name
Elmira “Minnie” Billingsley
Given names
Elmira
Surname
Billingsley
Nickname
Minnie
Birth about 1865 41 28

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 2 years)
Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic
1867 (Age 2 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 4 years)

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
Death of a paternal grandfatherJames Bohaney Billingsley
before 1870 (Age 5 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 13 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a motherElizabeth Jane Alexander
June 21, 1881 (Age 16 years)
Death of a fatherJames Bohaney Billingsley Jr.
January 24, 1889 (Age 24 years)
Death about 1890 (Age 25 years)

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father
James Bohaney Billingsley Jr.
Birth: 1824 31 27South Carolina, United States
Death: January 24, 1889Pine Mountain, Rabun, Georgia, United States
mother
Marriage:
herself

Elmira “Minnie” Billingsley has 10 first cousins recorded