 Birth | March 24, 1899 44 38 |
 Census | June 13, 1900 (Age 14 months) |
 Death of a mother | Lena Leota Spillman September 23, 1901 (Age 2 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Virlinda Nelson October 22, 1906 (Age 7 years) |
| Census | 1910 (Age 10 years) Note: St. Louis Protestant Orphan's Home |
 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 son #1 | John Wallace Shamel Jr June 16, 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 14, 1920 (Age 20 years) |
| Death of a father | John Calvin Shamel Jr. February 7, 1925 (Age 25 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 |
 Marriage | Emily Grasse — View this family before 1940 (Age 40 years) |
| Census | April 12, 1940 (Age 41 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 |
| 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 sister | Corrinne B “Corra” Shamel January 15, 1963 (Age 63 years) |
| Death of a brother | Claude DeVault Shamel January 23, 1963 (Age 63 years) |
| Death of a wife | Annie Muriel Kinkaid September 9, 1975 (Age 76 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 of a brother | Ray Wallbridge Shamel March 12, 1978 (Age 78 years) |
| Death of a sister | Anna M Shamel March 1982 (Age 82 years) |
| Death of a brother | Jennings Bryan Shamel April 17, 1992 (on the date of death) |
 Death | April 17, 1992 (Age 93 years) |