 Birth | January 3, 1894 44 39 |
 Birth of a sister | Ruth Shemwell July 16, 1896 (Age 2 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Robert Levi Shemwell February 8, 1898 (Age 4 years) |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 4 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 16, 1900 (Age 6 years) |
| Death of a brother | Robert Levi Shemwell August 1, 1901 (Age 7 years) Cause: Dysentery |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | George Morton Shemwell July 29, 1904 (Age 10 years) |
| Death of a sister | Gertrude Shemwell November 22, 1908 (Age 14 years) Cause: Pneumonia - Typhoid Fever |
| Census | April 18, 1910 (Age 16 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Delilah Adeline Lee September 2, 1910 (Age 16 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 21 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
 Military | WW1 Draft June 5, 1917 (Age 23 years) |
| Military service | PFC 242 Mil. Police between 1917 and 1919 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a father | Alexander Taylor Shemwell July 24, 1917 (Age 23 years) Cause: Tuberculosis |
 Occupation | Laborer-Mo-Pacific Railroad 1917 (Age 22 years) |
| Inducted | WWI December 3, 1917 (Age 23 years)Note: Jefferson Barracks |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 22 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 23 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/ |
| European Theatre | European Theatre between June 30, 1918 and June 16, 1919 (Age 24 years) |
| Census | January 9, 1920 (Age 26 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | Warren Thompson Wassell January 1, 1923 (Age 28 years) |
 Marriage | Ida Clark — View this family January 27, 1925 (Age 31 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 35 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 14, 1930 (Age 36 years) |
| Death of a mother | Melvina Pamelia Thompson May 18, 1935 (Age 41 years) Cause: Cardiac Arrhythmia |
| Census | April 8, 1940 (Age 46 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 47 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 55 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a half-sister | Emily “Emma” Wassell June 25, 1956 (Age 62 years) |
| Burial of a half-sister | Emily “Emma” Wassell June 28, 1956 (Age 62 years) Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Old Lamine Cemetery |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 51 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | February 6, 1960 (Age 66 years) Cause of death: Pneumonia |
 Burial | February 8, 1960 (2 days after death) Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Old Lamine Cemetery |