The Shemwell Family

Name
Audie Burrus
Given names
Audie
Surname
Burrus
Birth January 1, 1909 20 20
Birth of a brotherEuliess A Burrus
December 13, 1910 (Age 23 months)
Birth of a brotherGeorge Eskell Burrus
November 16, 1912 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherWalter A Burrus
December 28, 1914 (Age 5 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 7 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 brotherThomas Ike “Tom” Burrus
February 22, 1917 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 8 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 9 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/
Birth of a sisterDollie Burrus
March 8, 1919 (Age 10 years)

Death of a sisterDollie Burrus
March 11, 1919 (Age 10 years)

Census January 20, 1920 (Age 11 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherGeorge E Huffman
March 16, 1921 (Age 12 years)
Birth of a brotherCleo Burrus
November 30, 1921 (Age 12 years)

Birth of a brotherLeo Burrus
November 30, 1921 (Age 12 years)

Death of a brotherCleo Burrus
December 4, 1921 (Age 12 years)

Death of a brotherLeo Burrus
February 15, 1923 (Age 14 years)

Birth of a brotherWillard Lero Burrus
October 8, 1924 (Age 15 years)
Birth of a sisterJewel Deare Burrus
January 10, 1928 (Age 19 years)
Death July 18, 1929 (Age 20 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mount Zion Cemetery
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