The Shemwell Family

Wendell Sumner DaggettAge: 67 years18941962

Name
Wendell Sumner Daggett
Given names
Wendell Sumner
Surname
Daggett
Birth March 12, 1894
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 4 years)
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
Religious marriageFlorence Marguerite “Flossie” CasadView this family
September 18, 1916 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 21 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 22 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 23 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 2, 1920 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 35 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 7, 1930 (Age 36 years)
Census April 4, 1940 (Age 46 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 47 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 55 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
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 51 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 1962 (Age 67 years)
Family with Florence Marguerite “Flossie” Casad - View this family
himself
Wendell Sumner Daggett
Birth: March 12, 1894Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, United States
Death: 1962King, Washington, United States
wife
Marriage: September 18, 1916King, Washington, United States
William Joseph Carey + Florence Marguerite “Flossie” Casad - View this family
wife’s husband
wife
Marriage: January 22, 1908Ballard, King, Washington, United States
23 months
step-daughter
2 years
step-son

Census1920 United States - Census transcript - Wendell Sumner Daggett - Household

Seattle, King, Washington, United States

NameRelationHomeMortSexRaceAgeConditionImmNatNatYSchoolRWBPLangFBPFather langMBPMother langEngOccupationIndEmp
Daggett, Wendell SheadMW27MWACanadaCanadapressmanprinting
Daggett, Florence MwifeFW29MMNUSIA
Carey, HelenstepdaughterFW11SWAMNMN
Carey, William JstepsonMW9SWAMNMN

Census1930 United States - Census transcript - Wendell Sumner Daggett - Household

Seattle, King, Washington, United States

NameRelationHomeV/RRadioFarmSexRaceAgeCondAMSchoolR/WBPFBPMBPLangImmNatEngOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkUnempVetWar
Daggett, Wendell SheadMW37M27WAN IrelandN Irelandprinterprinting
Daggett, Florence MwifeFW39M17MNINIA
Daggett, Helen MstepdaughterFW21SWAMNMN
Daggett, Harold JstepsonMW20SWAMNMNsalesmanpublishing company

Census1940 United States - Census transcript - Wendell Sumner Daggett - Household

Seattle, King, Washington, United States

NameInfoRelationHomeV/RFarmSexRaceAgeCondSchoolR/WBPCityCountyStateOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkWagesVetWar
Daggett, Wendell SheadMW47MWAsecretaryprinting lithography
Daggett, Florence MwifeFW47MMN

Note
Wendell Sumner Daggett must have adopted Florence's children by her first husband, W J Carey. Beginning in the 1930 U.S. Federal Census their surname was listed as "Daggett" rather than "Carey". Their marriages and their deaths state "Daggett" is their surname.