The Shemwell Family

Name
Lear Crossno
Given names
Lear
Surname
Crossno
Married name
Lear Magee
Birth July 30, 1838 26 24
Birth of a sisterJane Crossno
January 5, 1845 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Mexican-American War
from 1846 to 1848 (Age 7 years)
Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 18 years)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
MarriageThomas MageeView this family
about 1861 (Age 22 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Mary Gilam Magee
July 24, 1862 (Age 23 years)
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 22 years)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 28 years)
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 (Age 28 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 30 years)

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 August 23, 1870 (Age 32 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Eliza Catherine Magee
February 28, 1871 (Age 32 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 39 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a fatherJacob “Jake” Crossno
1880 (Age 41 years)
Death of a motherMicha Wells
1880 (Age 41 years)
Census June 11, 1880 (Age 41 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Henry Crossno Sr
January 17, 1889 (Age 50 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Maud M Magee
about July 1892 (Age 53 years)
Note: Birth date/place based on 1900 Census
Birth of a son
#4
Walter O Magee
about July 1895 (Age 56 years)
Note: Birth date/place based on 1900 Census
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 59 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
Census June 15, 1900 (Age 61 years)
Death of a sisterJane Crossno
March 24, 1907 (Age 68 years)
Census May 3, 1910 (Age 71 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 77 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 78 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 79 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 15, 1920 (Age 81 years)
Death of a husbandThomas Magee
May 5, 1920 (Age 81 years)
Death January 28, 1923 (Age 84 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Cool Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery
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