The Shemwell Family

Opal A LeeAge: 37 years18991937

Name
Opal A Lee
Given names
Opal A
Surname
Lee
Married name
Opal A Ramey
Birth March 25, 1899
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 16 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 17 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 18 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/
MarriageOtto Elbert RameyView this family
estimated 1924 (Age 24 years)

Birth of a daughter
#1
Ottava LaFern Ramey
May 29, 1924 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 30 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
Census April 12, 1930 (Age 31 years)
Death of a daughterOttava LaFern Ramey
1931 (Age 31 years)
Death January 7, 1937 (Age 37 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Woodland Cemetery
Family with Otto Elbert Ramey - View this family
husband
herself
Opal A Lee
Birth: March 25, 1899Jefferson, Kansas, United States
Death: January 7, 1937Oklahoma, United States
Marriage: estimated 1924
5 months
daughter
Ottava LaFern Ramey
Birth: May 29, 1924 31 25Oklahoma, United States
Death: 1931Oklahoma, United States
Otto Elbert Ramey + Venus Ruth Webb - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Venus Ruth Webb
Birth: September 18, 1907Laclede, Linn, Missouri, United States
Death: January 31, 1990Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States
Marriage: estimated 1938
Otto Elbert Ramey + Grace Elizabeth Canfield - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Grace Elizabeth Canfield
Birth: April 25, 1892 31 24Kansas, United States
Death: August 28, 1975Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, United States
Marriage: calculated 1912
2 years
step-daughter
Viola Ramey
Birth: April 1, 1914 21 21Jennings, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States
Death: August 2, 2000Fair Oaks, Sacramento, California, United States
step-daughter
Viona Ramey
Birth: April 1, 1914 21 21Jennings, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States
Death: October 1, 2001Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, United States

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Census1930 United States - Census transcript - Otto Elbert Ramey - Household

Main Street Jennings, Pawnee, Oklahoma

NameRelationHomeV/RRadioFarmSexRaceAgeCondAMSchoolR/WBPFBPMBPLangImmNatEngOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkUnempVetWar
Ramey, Otto EheadMW37M19OKKSMODealerLive Stock
Ramey, Opal AwifeFW31M22KSMSKS
Ramey, Ottava LdaughterFW5SOKOKKS