The Shemwell Family

Name
Ruby Belle Epps
Given names
Ruby Belle
Surname
Epps
Married name
Ruby Belle Younge
Married name
Ruby Belle Critchfield
Birth July 21, 1899 25 20
Census June 13, 1900 (Age 10 months)
Birth of a sisterRachel Prue Epps
July 14, 1901 (Age 23 months)
Death of a sisterRachel Prue Epps
December 30, 1901 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherRaymond Almus Epps
December 8, 1903 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterLela Leota Epps
February 27, 1905 (Age 5 years)
Death of a brotherRaymond Almus Epps
July 16, 1905 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a brotherArnold Wallace Epps
August 18, 1908 (Age 9 years)
Census April 27, 1910 (Age 10 years)
Birth of a brotherErnest Edward Epps
December 24, 1912 (Age 13 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherJohn A Epps
January 2, 1913 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 16 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Birth of a brotherRalph Sanford Epps
June 26, 1917 (Age 17 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherAaron Francis Hodge
August 11, 1918 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 17 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 18 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/
Census January 6, 1920 (Age 20 years)
MarriageLuther CritchfieldView this family
August 3, 1925 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 30 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 maternal grandmotherSarah Elizabeth Lamkin
August 21, 1934 (Age 35 years)
Census April 17, 1940 (Age 40 years)
Death of a husbandLuther Critchfield
January 2, 1944 (Age 44 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 42 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
Census April 10, 1950 (Age 50 years)
MarriageEarl Leroy YoungeView this family
August 13, 1950 (Age 51 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 50 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 husbandEarl Leroy Younge
August 21, 1969 (Age 70 years)
Death of a fatherJames Albert “Jimmie” Epps
January 15, 1970 (Age 70 years)
Death of a brotherErnest Edward Epps
December 7, 1970 (Age 71 years)
Death of a brotherRalph Sanford Epps
May 6, 1972 (Age 72 years)
Death of a motherMary Lulu Hodge
January 4, 1973 (Age 73 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 46 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 May 9, 1982 (Age 82 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Woodlawn Cemetery
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