The Shemwell Family

Name
Edgar L Carneal
Given names
Edgar L
Surname
Carneal
Birth March 1876 28 29
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 22 months)

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 sisterMattie T Carneal
December 23, 1879 (Age 3 years)
Census June 10, 1880 (Age 4 years)
Death of a fatherRobert Newton Carneal
October 28, 1881 (Age 5 years)

Death of a paternal grandfatherJoseph Stewart Carneal
July 11, 1883 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 22 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 4, 1900 (Age 24 years)
MarriageRosa E McGeheeView this family
about 1901 (Age 24 years)

Death of a motherNancy Jane Welborn
July 8, 1902 (Age 26 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherLucinda Ashbourn Shemwell
after 1906 (Age 29 years)
Death of a sisterMattie T Carneal
July 3, 1911 (Age 35 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 39 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 40 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 41 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 sisterBeatrice Elizabeth Carneal
January 2, 1928 (Age 51 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 53 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 wifeRosa E McGehee
December 12, 1935 (Age 59 years)
Death of a brotherWalter Columbus “Lum” Carneal
October 21, 1939 (Age 63 years)
Death November 18, 1940 (Age 64 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: New Cypress Cemetery
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