 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: 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 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869Note: 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 |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Euna Stavely March 7, 1889 |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Beuna Eartha Stavely 1891 |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Fredda Stavely August 2, 1897 |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898Note: 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Jewel Stavely about 1901 |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916Note: 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 1918Note: 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 1918Note: 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/ |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Charlene Elizabeth “Betty” Shemwell November 27, 1919 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Beatrice P Shemwell March 7, 1921 |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | Benjamin Rice Shemwell May 3, 1922 |
| Birth of a grandson #4 | Clifton Harmon Shemwell January 9, 1924 |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | Mardis Calvin Shemwell February 20, 1926 |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929Note: 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 |
| Birth of a grandson #6 | Thomas Elmer Shemwell October 3, 1930 |
| Birth of a grandson #7 | James Eldridge Shemwell Sr. October 3, 1930 twin: Thomas Elmer Shemwell
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| Birth of a granddaughter #8 | Mary F Shemwell December 17, 1932 |
| Birth of a grandson #9 | Charles Joe “Charley” Shemwell October 26, 1936 |
| Death of a daughter | Jewel Stavely February 14, 1942 |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945Note: 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 |
| Death of a grandson | Thomas Elmer Shemwell October 1952 Cause: M.I.A. - Korea |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953Note: 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 grandson | Clifton Harmon Shemwell June 4, 1956 |
| Death of a daughter | Beuna Eartha Stavely August 21, 1956 |
| Death of a daughter | Euna Stavely 1967 |
| Death of a grandson | Mardis Calvin Shemwell December 22, 1969 Cause: Killed in car wreck going to work |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975Note: 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 | unknown |