The Shemwell Family

Mary “Mollie” DoniganAge: 74 years18671941

Name
Mary “Mollie” Donigan
Given names
Mary
Surname
Donigan
Married name
Mary Shemwell
Nickname
Mollie
Married name
Mary McCabe
Birth 1867 55 42
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867
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
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 2 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 11 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Religious marriageThomas A ShemwellView this family
September 15, 1885 (Age 18 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Thomas A Shemwell
February 1886 (Age 19 years)
Death of a sisterImogene Donigan
about 1898 (Age 31 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 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
Census June 8, 1900 (Age 33 years)
Death of a husbandThomas A Shemwell
April 1905 (Age 38 years)
Cause: Typhoid pneumonia
Death of a motherEleanor Gravely
October 23, 1905 (Age 38 years)
Census April 28, 1910 (Age 43 years)
MarriageThomas Willis McCabeView this family
July 5, 1911 (Age 44 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 49 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 50 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 51 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 62 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 husbandThomas Willis McCabe
February 16, 1933 (Age 66 years)

Death May 13, 1941 (Age 74 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Salem Cemetery
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Eleanor Gravely
Birth: about 1825North Carolina, United States
Death: October 23, 1905Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States
Marriage:
elder sister
Imogene Donigan
Birth: March 21, 1858 46 33Leatherwood, Henry, Virginia, United States
Death: about 1898Forsyth, North Carolina, United States
10 years
herself
Family with Thomas A Shemwell - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: September 15, 1885Winston, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States
5 months
son
Thomas A Shemwell
Birth: February 1886 26 19North Carolina, United States
Death:
Family with Thomas Willis McCabe - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: July 5, 1911Forsyth, North Carolina, United States

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Census1900 United States - Census transcript - James Madison Jessup - Household

Spring Winston, Forsyth, North Carolina

NameRelationRaceSexMonthYearAgeCondMarrCHBCHLBPFBPMBPImmUSNatOccupationUnempSchoolReadWriteEngHomeMortFarm
Jessup, James MheadWMOct185841WdNCNCNCDealer Leaf Tobacco
Jessup, Grady IsonWMJun188811SNCNCNC
Jessup, Claude DsonWMNov18909SNCNCNC
Jessup, Paul EsonWMJan18937SNCNCNC
Jessup, Lewis HsonWMApr18955SNCNCNC
Donigan, Eleanormother in lawWFApr182674Wd105VAVAVA
Donigan, Spottswoodbrother in lawWMNov185544SVAVAVA
Donigan, Rachelsister in lawWFApr187030SVAVAVA
Shemwell, Mary Lsister in lawWFUN186832M21NCNCVA
Shemwell, Thomas AnephewWMFeb188614SNCNCVA