The Shemwell Family

Hanna Edna ImshweilerAge: 73 years19001974

Name
Hanna Edna Imshweiler
Given names
Hanna Edna
Surname
Imshweiler
Married name
Hanna Edna Foster
Birth June 24, 1900
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 15 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
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World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 16 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
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Spanish Influenza Epidemic
1918 (Age 17 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/
MarriageMatthew Edward FosterView this family
October 3, 1923 (Age 23 years)
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The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 29 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
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World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 41 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
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Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 49 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
Death of a husbandMatthew Edward Foster
November 13, 1972 (Age 72 years)
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Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 45 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 April 1974 (Age 73 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Whitemarsh Memorial Park
Family with Matthew Edward Foster - View this family
husband
Matthew Edward Foster
Birth: December 24, 1896 33 35Centralia, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: November 13, 1972Pennsylvania, United States
herself
Hanna Edna Imshweiler
Birth: June 24, 1900Pennsylvania, United States
Death: April 1974Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage: October 3, 1923Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States

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