The Shemwell Family

Name
Laura J Hooper
Given names
Laura J
Surname
Hooper
Birth March 31, 1869 52 34
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869

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 October 12, 1870 (Age 18 months)
Birth of a brotherThomas Seymour Hooper
November 26, 1871 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherJohn A Hooper
1873 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherRobert Elie Hooper
1877 (Age 7 years)
Death of a fatherJoseph W Hooper
February 1877 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 8 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Census June 21, 1880 (Age 11 years)
Note: ED 169
Death of a brotherJames William “Willy” Hooper
1891 (Age 21 years)
Death of a brotherJohn A Hooper
1891 (Age 21 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 29 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 motherLouisa Jane Taylor
April 25, 1916 (Age 47 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 46 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 47 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 48 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 of a half-sisterFrances Elizabeth Hooper
February 20, 1921 (Age 51 years)
Death of a sisterSarah Elmerine Hooper
January 31, 1926 (Age 56 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 60 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
Death of a brotherJoseph Samuel Hooper
February 4, 1934 (Age 64 years)
Death of a sisterEliza E Hooper
January 1935 (Age 65 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 72 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
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 76 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 October 23, 1946 (Age 77 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Stuart Chapel Cemetery
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