Eunice Lorraine ShemwellAge: 89 years1911–2000
- Name
- Eunice Lorraine Shemwell
- Given names
- Eunice Lorraine
- Surname
- Shemwell
- Married name
- Eunice Lorraine Reid
 Birth | March 6, 1911 49 41 |
 Death of a maternal grandmother | Mary Jane Edwards March 30, 1911 (Age 24 days) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 4 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 5 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 6 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 26, 1920 (Age 8 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 18 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 |
| Census | April 23, 1940 (Age 29 years) |
| Death of a mother | Hettie Louise Hathcock July 28, 1941 (Age 30 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 30 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 |
| Death of a father | Thomas Alonzo Shemwell April 15, 1947 (Age 36 years) |
| Death of a brother | Byron Shemwell February 21, 1952 (Age 40 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 38 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 | Verna Belle Shemwell August 30, 1955 (Age 44 years) |
| Death of a brother | Earl Shemwell June 10, 1975 (Age 64 years) |
| Death of a sister | Perna Shemwell August 28, 1975 (Age 64 years) |
| Death of a brother | Rollie Theron Shemwell November 8, 1975 (Age 64 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 34 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 | Isaac Reed Shemwell April 29, 1985 (Age 74 years) |
| Death of a sister | Idella Shemwell 1994 (Age 82 years) Address: Western Baptist Hospital |
| Death of a brother | Homer Acton Shemwell March 10, 1994 (Age 83 years) |
| Death of a brother | Thomas Albin Shemwell February 7, 1996 (Age 84 years) |
| Death of a husband | Howard Vernon Reid December 19, 1997 (Age 86 years) |
 Death | July 16, 2000 (Age 89 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Symsonia Cemetery |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Thomas Alonzo Shemwell Birth: February 6, 1862 43 33 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: April 15, 1947 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
| mother |
Hettie Louise Hathcock Birth: March 28, 1869 24 21 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: July 28, 1941 — Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: April 22, 1886 — |
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11 months elder sister |
Verna Belle Shemwell Birth: March 15, 1887 25 17 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: August 30, 1955 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
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2 years elder sister |
Perna Shemwell Birth: April 6, 1889 27 20 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: August 28, 1975 — San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States |
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21 months elder brother |
Earl Shemwell Birth: December 30, 1890 28 21 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: June 10, 1975 — Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States |
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2 years elder brother |
Byron Shemwell Birth: January 24, 1893 30 23 — Kentucky, United States Death: February 21, 1952 — Benton, Graves, Kentucky, United States |
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2 years elder brother |
Hoke Adley Shemwell Birth: February 1895 32 25 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: October 14, 1897 |
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2 years elder brother |
Rollie Theron Shemwell Birth: February 6, 1897 35 27 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: November 8, 1975 — St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
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2 years elder sister |
Idella Shemwell Birth: June 10, 1899 37 30 — Kentucky, United States Death: 1994 — Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
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2 years elder brother |
Isaac Reed Shemwell Birth: September 29, 1901 39 32 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: April 29, 1985 — Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States |
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3 years elder brother |
Homer Acton Shemwell Birth: October 26, 1904 42 35 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: March 10, 1994 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
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20 months elder brother |
Thomas Albin Shemwell Birth: July 9, 1906 44 37 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: February 7, 1996 — Symsonia, Graves, Kentucky, United States |
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5 years herself |
Eunice Lorraine Shemwell Birth: March 6, 1911 49 41 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: July 16, 2000 — Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
| Family with Howard Vernon Reid |
| husband |
Howard Vernon Reid Birth: October 21, 1908 — Kentucky, United States Death: December 19, 1997 — Symsonia, Graves, Kentucky, United States |
| herself |
Eunice Lorraine Shemwell Birth: March 6, 1911 49 41 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: July 16, 2000 — Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
| daughter |
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| son |
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Eunice Lorraine Shemwell has 23 first cousins recorded
Father's family (21)
Parents George Washington Shemwell + Mary Elizabeth Crowell
Parents Isaac Newton Shemwell + Nannie Bola Pryor
Parents Isaac Newton Shemwell + Florence Wood Wilkerson
Parents James Paschal Burnett + Susanna Melissa Elizabeth “Susie” Shemwell
Mother's family (2)
Parents James Alfred Hathcock + Josephine B Henderson
1Private–
Parents William Edward Hathcock + Eliza Ellen Crowell
| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Thomas Alonzo Shemwell - Household
Symsonia Graves KY
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| Census | 1940 United States - Census transcript - Howard Vernon Reid - Household
Graves, Kentucky
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