The Shemwell Family

Nellie Faye GoldsAge: 85 years19141999

Name
Nellie Faye Golds
Given names
Nellie Faye
Surname
Golds
Married name
Nellie Faye Greene
Birth April 11, 1914
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 20 months)

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 2 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 3 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 15 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
Birth of a daughter
#1
Dorothy Lean Greene
February 16, 1934 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 27 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
Birth of a son
#2
Denny Sylvester Greene
December 22, 1945 (Age 31 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 35 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 sonDenny Sylvester Greene
January 18, 1969 (Age 54 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 31 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 of a daughterDorothy Lean Greene
August 18, 1995 (Age 81 years)
Death of a husbandArnold Sylvester Greene
February 1, 1999 (Age 84 years)
Death May 27, 1999 (Age 85 years)
Family with Arnold Sylvester Greene - View this family
husband
Arnold Sylvester Greene
Birth: August 18, 1914 41 38Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: February 1, 1999Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States
herself
Nellie Faye Golds
Birth: April 11, 1914Wilkes, North Carolina, United States
Death: May 27, 1999Watauga, North Carolina, United States
daughter
Dorothy Lean Greene
Birth: February 16, 1934 19 19North Carolina, United States
Death: August 18, 1995Alta Loma, San Bernardino, California, United States
son
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daughter
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son
Denny Sylvester Greene
Birth: December 22, 1945 31 31Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: January 18, 1969Watauga, North Carolina, United States
daughter
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daughter
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