 Birth | March 6, 1915 22 18 |
 Birth of a brother | James Rollin Shamel September 11, 1916 (Age 18 months) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 9 months)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 21 months)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 2 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 7, 1920 (Age 4 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Margie Lorraine Shamel October 28, 1923 (Age 8 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 14 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 30, 1930 (Age 15 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | James Albert Shamel December 29, 1934 (Age 19 years) Cause: Angina Pericarditis |
| Census | April 11, 1940 (Age 25 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Emma Evelyn McLaughlin August 2, 1942 (Age 27 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 26 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 34 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 |
 Marriage | Clarence W McCready — View this family January 16, 1954 (Age 38 years) |
| Death of a husband | Clarence W McCready April 7, 1975 (Age 60 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 30 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 of a mother | Alma Louvina Irick December 30, 1984 (Age 69 years) Cause: Cancer |
| Death of a father | Elmer James Shamel January 1985 (Age 69 years) |
| Death of a husband | David Wilbur Cook May 10, 2003 (Age 88 years) |
| Death of a brother | James Rollin Shamel August 13, 2008 (Age 93 years) |
| Death of a sister | Margie Lorraine Shamel February 14, 2018 (Age 102 years) |
 Death | unknown |