The Shemwell Family

Laura Ann “Fannie” Roach1865

Name
Laura Ann “Fannie” Roach
Given names
Laura Ann
Surname
Roach
Nickname
Fannie
Married name
Laura Ann Barnes
Birth about 1865
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
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
MarriageJames Isaac “Ike” BarnesView this family
August 10, 1881 (Age 16 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Burtha Lee Barnes
May 1892 (Age 27 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 33 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
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 51 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 52 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 53 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 64 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 husbandJames Isaac “Ike” Barnes
May 3, 1932 (Age 67 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 76 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
Death of a daughterBurtha Lee Barnes
December 21, 1946 (Age 81 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 85 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
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 81 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
Deathunknown

Family with James Isaac “Ike” Barnes - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: August 10, 1881Pope, Arkansas, United States
11 years
daughter
Burtha Lee Barnes
Birth: May 1892 32 27Arkansas, United States
Death: December 21, 1946Conway, Arkansas, United States
James Isaac “Ike” Barnes + Ruth Viola “Ruthie” Chambers - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Marriage: December 4, 1895Conway, Arkansas, United States
3 years
step-son
20 months
step-son
Reece McClellon Barnes
Birth: November 24, 1900 41 26Arkansas, United States
Death: February 6, 1964Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
4 years
step-son
Thomas Henry Barnes
Birth: about 1904 44 29McLaren, Conway, Arkansas, United States
Death:
2 years
step-son
Jeffrey Isaac Barnes
Birth: February 2, 1906 46 31Arkansas, United States
Death: May 12, 1979England, Lonoke, Arkansas, United States
3 years
step-son
Edward L Barnes
Birth: 1908 48 33McLaren, Conway, Arkansas, United States
Death: July 31, 1955

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