The Shemwell Family

Vena Tamer MillerAge: 61 years18661927

Name
Vena Tamer Miller
Given names
Vena Tamer
Surname
Miller
Married name
Vena Tamer Fugitt
Birth March 30, 1866 27 37
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 9 months)
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 9 months)
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
Birth of a brotherJohn F Miller
about 1870 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherReuben Miller
about 1872 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a sisterEliza Caroline Miller
September 17, 1873 (Age 7 years)
Death of a motherMary Greene
May 13, 1877 (Age 11 years)
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
Death of a brotherJohn F Miller
after 1880 (Age 13 years)

Death of a brotherReuben Miller
June 10, 1882 (Age 16 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherDeacon Solomon Greene
December 24, 1888 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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
Death of a half-sisterMartha W Greene
before 1900 (Age 33 years)

Death of a half-brotherRichard C Green
November 25, 1906 (Age 40 years)
Death of a half-brotherLarkin George Greene
November 2, 1915 (Age 49 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
Death of a sisterMary Ann Miller
February 8, 1918 (Age 51 years)
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/
Death of a sisterEliza Caroline Miller
May 8, 1926 (Age 60 years)
Death November 2, 1927 (Age 61 years)
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: October 1857Watauga, North Carolina, United States
2 years
elder sister
Nancy Jane Miller
Birth: October 12, 1859 21 30Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: September 18, 1931Electra, Wichita, Texas, United States
9 months
elder sister
Mary Ann Miller
Birth: July 13, 1860 22 31Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: February 8, 1918Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States
3 years
elder brother
William Lee Miller
Birth: July 25, 1863 25 34Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: April 15, 1957Westminster, Orange, California, United States
3 years
herself
Vena Tamer Miller
Birth: March 30, 1866 27 37Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: November 2, 1927Electra, Wichita, Texas, United States
5 years
younger brother
John F Miller
Birth: about 1870 31 40Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: after 1880
3 years
younger brother
Reuben Miller
Birth: about 1872 33 42Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: June 10, 1882Grayson, Texas, United States
21 months
younger sister
Eliza Caroline Miller
Birth: September 17, 1873 35 44Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Death: May 8, 1926Electra, Wichita, Texas, United States
Mother’s family with Larkin Greene - View this family
step-father
Larkin Greene
Birth: March 9, 1825 34 28Ashe, North Carolina, United States
Death: November 2, 1850Watauga, North Carolina, United States
mother
Marriage: April 30, 1846
10 months
half-brother
Richard C Green
Birth: February 14, 1847 21 17Ashe, North Carolina, United States
Death: November 25, 1906Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
3 years
half-brother
Solomon Greene
Birth: about 1849 23 19Ashe, North Carolina, United States
Death: about 1849Ashe, North Carolina, United States
22 months
half-brother
Larkin George Greene
Birth: November 3, 1850 25 21Meat Camp, Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: November 2, 1915Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Mother’s family with an unknown individual - View this family
mother
half-sister
Sarah Elizabeth Greene
Birth: March 4, 1854 25North Carolina, United States
Death: May 15, 1933Electra, Wichita, Texas, United States
3 years
half-sister
Martha W Greene
Birth: about 1856 26North Carolina, United States
Death: before 1900