The Shemwell Family

Name
Daniel Lee Epps
Given names
Daniel Lee
Surname
Epps
Birth October 26, 1871 31 27
Birth of a brotherStephens Alonza Conner Epps
November 27, 1872 (Age 13 months)
Birth of a brotherBenjamin Franklin Epps
January 1, 1876 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a brotherRansom Obediah “Rant” Epps
August 4, 1878 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 6 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Birth of a sisterMary Elca Epps
January 14, 1883 (Age 11 years)
Death of a sisterMary Elca Epps
February 28, 1883 (Age 11 years)
Birth of a brotherMartin Alva Epps
March 20, 1884 (Age 12 years)
Death of a motherMartha Jane “Mattie” Lanley
March 20, 1884 (Age 12 years)
Death of a brotherMartin Alva Epps
April 14, 1884 (Age 12 years)
Marriage of a parentCarroll Estel EppsSusannah Charlotte EmersonView this family
November 21, 1884 (Age 13 years)
Birth of a half-brotherGrover Eber Epps
November 8, 1885 (Age 14 years)
Death of a fatherCarroll Estel Epps
March 22, 1889 (Age 17 years)
Death of a sisterSarah Ann Epps
January 23, 1896 (Age 24 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 26 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
Death of a brotherRansom Obediah “Rant” Epps
February 11, 1916 (Age 44 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 44 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 45 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 46 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/
Death of a half-brotherGrover Eber Epps
July 19, 1926 (Age 54 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 57 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
Death of a brotherStephens Alonza Conner Epps
November 28, 1938 (Age 67 years)
Death of a brotherThomas Anderson Epps
November 2, 1942 (Age 71 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Joshua Epps
June 13, 1943 (Age 71 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 70 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 78 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 brotherBenjamin Franklin Epps
April 27, 1958 (Age 86 years)
Death of a brotherJohn Jefferson Epps
October 2, 1970 (Age 98 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 74 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
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