The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	1874
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 4 years) Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Marriage	Elisha Elliot Collier — View this family March 13, 1892 (Age 18 years) Logan, Kentucky, United States
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 24 years) Cuba 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 42 years) Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Historical Event	World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 43 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 44 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	1925 (Age 51 years)

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Family with Elisha Elliot Collier - View this family

husband	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Celia Jane DeWeese Family with spouse Lucinda “Lou” Stinson Elisha Elliot Collier Birth: September 7, 1871 — Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky, United States Death: September 4, 1939 — Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
herself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Elisha Elliot Collier Celia Jane DeWeese Birth: 1874 Death: 1925
	Marriage: March 13, 1892 — Logan, Kentucky, United States

Elisha Elliot Collier + Lucinda “Lou” Stinson - View this family

husband	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Celia Jane DeWeese Family with spouse Lucinda “Lou” Stinson Elisha Elliot Collier Birth: September 7, 1871 — Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky, United States Death: September 4, 1939 — Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
husband’s wife	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse George Henry Shemwell Daisy Pearl Shemwell Family with spouse Elisha Elliot Collier Lucinda “Lou” Stinson Birth: September 17, 1876 42 18 — Clifty, Todd, Kentucky, United States Death: June 24, 1960 — Drakesboro, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
	Marriage: September 1, 1927 — Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States

Family with Elisha Elliot Collier
husband Parents (unknown)	Elisha Elliot Collier 1871–1939
herself Parents (unknown)	Celia Jane DeWeese 1874–1925
Elisha Elliot Collier + Lucinda “Lou” Stinson
husband Parents (unknown)	Elisha Elliot Collier 1871–1939
husband’s wife Parents Thomas Brown “Tom” Stinson Mary Tennessee Gary	Lucinda “Lou” Stinson 1876–1960