The Shemwell Family

Name
Laura I Magee
Given names
Laura I
Surname
Magee
Birth December 25, 1867 34 25
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867
Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic
1867
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 12 months)

Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
Census June 16, 1870 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherJasper Aaron Magee
June 5, 1871 (Age 3 years)
Death of a motherMary Ann Wasner
about 1871 (Age 3 years)
Marriage of a parentLewis Pinkney MageeMary Ann WoodwardView this family
January 1, 1872 (Age 4 years)
Census 1876 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 10 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Marriage of a parentLewis Pinkney MageeBarbara Caroline CobleView this family
January 10, 1881 (Age 13 years)
Note: "...Caroline married Lewis P. MaGee Jan. 10, 1881 and is probably buried beside him...."
Death of a sisterMelissa Jane Magee
November 13, 1894 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 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
Death of a fatherLewis Pinkney Magee
June 22, 1900 (Age 32 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 50 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 April 9, 1919 (Age 51 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Robberson Prairie Cemetery
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