The Shemwell Family

Mabel B ZimmermanAge: 79 years18941974

Name
Mabel B Zimmerman
Given names
Mabel B
Surname
Zimmerman
Married name
Mabel B Foster
Birth December 3, 1894
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 3 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 daughter
#1
Audrise Lorraine Foster
September 30, 1915 (Age 20 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 21 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 22 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 23 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 9, 1920 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 34 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 1930 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Anna May Foster
1936 (Age 41 years)
Census April 15, 1940 (Age 45 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 46 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 55 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 daughterAnna May Foster
October 15, 1963 (Age 68 years)
Death of a husbandGeorge Robinson Foster
April 1973 (Age 78 years)
Death April 22, 1974 (Age 79 years)
Obituary
Mabel B Foster (nee Zimmerman) Obituary
April 23, 1974 (1 day after death)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 51 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
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Edgewood Memorial Park
Family with George Robinson Foster - View this family
husband
herself
Mabel B Zimmerman
Birth: December 3, 1894Mount Carmel, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: April 22, 1974Pennsylvania, United States
daughter
Audrise Lorraine Foster
Birth: September 30, 1915 24 20Kulpmont, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: April 7, 1989Pennsylvania, United States
son
Private
daughter
Anna May Foster
Birth: 1936 45 41Pennsylvania, United States
Death: October 15, 1963Pennsylvania, United States

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Census1920 United States - Census transcript - George Robinson Foster - Household

Kulpmont, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States

NameRelationHomeMortSexRaceAgeConditionImmNatNatYSchoolRWBPLangFBPFather langMBPMother langEngOccupationIndEmp
Foster, George RheadRMW29MYesYesPAEnglandEnglishEnglandEnglishYesLaborCoal MineW
Zimmerman, Mabel BwifeFW25MYesYesPAYesNone
Foster, Audrise LdaughterFW4SPAPAPAYesNone