The Shemwell Family

Lewis Ezra SmartAge: 30 years18961926

Name
Lewis Ezra Smart
Given names
Lewis Ezra
Surname
Smart
Birth May 28, 1896
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 22 months)
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
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 19 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Military
WWI Draft Registration
1917 (Age 20 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 20 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 21 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/
Civil marriageBertha Isolene SmithView this family
September 17, 1919 (Age 23 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Mary Avril Louise “Dixie” Smart
January 2, 1920 (Age 23 years)
Religious marriageMarie WilliamsView this family
November 26, 1921 (Age 25 years)
Death November 19, 1926 (Age 30 years)
Cause of death: Tuberculosis
Family with Bertha Isolene Smith - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: September 17, 1919Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
4 months
daughter
Mary Avril Louise “Dixie” Smart
Birth: January 2, 1920 23 25Clay, Arkansas, United States
Death: March 16, 1987Oklahoma, United States
Family with Marie Williams - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: November 26, 1921Eureka, Greenwood, Kansas, United States
Peter Robert Shaw + Bertha Isolene Smith - View this family
wife’s husband
wife
step-daughter
Lillian Shaw
Birth: March 5, 1924 31 29Clay, Arkansas, United States
Death: March 28, 1924Clay, Arkansas, United States
14 months
step-daughter
Bertha Lee Shaw
Birth: May 20, 1925 32 30Haywood, Clay, Arkansas, United States
Death: March 17, 2021Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States
step-son
Private