The Shemwell Family

Name
Leroy Thomas McGehee
Given names
Leroy Thomas
Surname
McGehee
Birth about 1846 24 20
Birth of a brotherRobert McGehee
about 1846
Birth of a brotherWinfred Scott McGehee
January 10, 1848 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherZachariah Taylor McGehee
January 10, 1848 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Mexican-American War
from 1846 to 1848
Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
Census September 26, 1850 (Age 4 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherJohn Ralph Haswell
after 1850 (Age 4 years)

Birth of a brotherHenry Louis McGehee
June 15, 1851 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a brotherGeorge W McGehee
April 24, 1853 (Age 7 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherShemuel McGehee Sr
about 1855 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a sisterJane McGehee
June 12, 1856 (Age 10 years)
Marriage of a parentJohn R McGeheeEliza Jane HaswellView this family
about 1856 (Age 10 years)
Death of a motherEliza Jane Haswell
after 1856 (Age 10 years)
Note: She died after the birth of her daughter in 1856. Need to find an actual death record
Marriage of a parentShemuel “Shem” McGehee JrDilly FreemanView this family
February 8, 1858 (Age 12 years)
Birth of a half-brotherShemuel J McGehee
January 25, 1859 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 11 years)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Census September 14, 1860 (Age 14 years)
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 15 years)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 21 years)
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 21 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 23 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
Debt
Leroy Thomas McGehee and Richard Ruffian Holmes Indenture 1872
February 3, 1872 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 32 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 maternal grandmotherMary Bridges
December 1879 (Age 33 years)
Probate between 1881 and 1883 (Age 35 years)
Death of a brotherGeorge W McGehee
December 24, 1892 (Age 46 years)
Death of a fatherShemuel “Shem” McGehee Jr
June 2, 1897 (Age 51 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 52 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-brotherShemuel J McGehee
June 25, 1901 (Age 55 years)
Death of a brotherWinfred Scott McGehee
December 15, 1911 (Age 65 years)
Death of a brotherZachariah Taylor McGehee
July 15, 1912 (Age 66 years)
Death of a sisterJane McGehee
January 30, 1915 (Age 69 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 70 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 brotherHenry Louis McGehee
August 18, 1918 (Age 72 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 71 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 72 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 brotherRobert McGehee
about 1920 (Age 74 years)
Death June 8, 1924 (Age 78 years)
Burial June 9, 1924 (1 day after death)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Fairview Cemetery
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