The Shemwell Family

Julia Lee WallaceAge: 96 years19112007

Name
Julia Lee Wallace
Given names
Julia Lee
Surname
Wallace
Married name
Julia Lee Atkin
Birth March 22, 1911
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/
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 18, 1930 (Age 19 years)
Census April 2, 1940 (Age 29 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Carolyn Elizabeth Atkin
February 7, 1942 (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
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 husbandNewton Lamar Atkin
July 18, 1973 (Age 62 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 September 2, 2007 (Age 96 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
Family with Newton Lamar Atkin - View this family
husband
Newton Lamar Atkin
Birth: July 10, 1902 31 22Sandy Springs, Anderson, South Carolina, United States
Death: July 18, 1973Greer, Greenville, South Carolina, United States
herself
Julia Lee Wallace
Birth: March 22, 1911Georgia, United States
Death: September 2, 2007Greenville, South Carolina, United States
daughter
Private
daughter
Carolyn Elizabeth Atkin
Birth: February 7, 1942 39 30Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Death: June 8, 2017Greenville, South Carolina, United States

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Census1930 United States - Census transcript - Robert Allen “R A” Atkin - Household

Honea Path, Anderson, South Carolina

NameRelationHomeV/RRadioFarmSexRaceAgeCondAMSchoolR/WBPFBPMBPLangImmNatEngOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkUnempVetWar
Atkin, R AheadMW26M18SCSCSCWeaverCotton Mill
Atkin, CarriewifeFW22M16SCSCSC
Atkin, AllensonMW6SSCSCSC
Atkin, WaltersonMW3SSCSCSC
Atkin, RobertsonMW2SSCSCSC
Atkin, Newtelder brotherMW28M27SCSCSCSpinnerCotton Mill
Atkin, Julia Lsister in lawFW19M19SCSCSCDofferCotton Mill