The Shemwell Family

Mary Elizabeth WaterfieldAge: 67 years18831950

Name
Mary Elizabeth Waterfield
Given names
Mary Elizabeth
Surname
Waterfield
Married name
Mary Elizabeth Webb
Married name
Mary Elizabeth Ray
Birth November 15, 1883
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 14 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
Birth of a son
#1
Albert Franklin Ray
May 22, 1904 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Mary Helen Webb
November 15, 1914 (Age 31 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 32 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 33 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 34 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 20, 1920 (Age 36 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 45 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 12, 1930 (Age 46 years)
Census April 2, 1940 (Age 56 years)
Census April 2, 1940 (Age 56 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 58 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 66 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 62 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 December 28, 1950 (Age 67 years)
Family with Waid Madison Webb - View this family
husband
Waid Madison Webb
Birth: August 8, 1882 26 22Cooper, Missouri, United States
Death: November 15, 1955Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
herself
daughter
Mary Helen Webb
Birth: November 15, 1914 32 31Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
Death: May 18, 2007Odessa, Lafayette, Missouri, United States
son
Private
Family with William F Ray - View this family
husband
herself
son
Albert Franklin Ray
Birth: May 22, 1904 40 20Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, United States
Death:
daughter
Private

No family available

Census1940 United States - Census transcript - Waid Madison Webb - Household

Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States

NameInfoRelationHomeV/RFarmSexRaceAgeCondSchoolR/WBPCityCountyStateOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkWagesVetWar
Webb, Wade MheadMW51MMO
Webb, Mary EwifeFW56MMO
Webb, Mary HdaughterFW25SMO
Webb, Wade VsonMW22SMOtruck driverown business hauling