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Alice Elizabeth McKenzieAge: 75 years18651940

Name
Alice Elizabeth McKenzie
Given names
Alice Elizabeth
Surname
McKenzie
Married name
Alice Elizabeth Frost
Birth October 5, 1865 25 18
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 14 months)
Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic
1867 (Age 14 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 3 years)

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
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 12 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a fatherRobert McKenzie
November 30, 1881 (Age 16 years)
MarriageByron FrostView this family
December 15, 1891 (Age 26 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Rowena Frost
about 1896 (Age 30 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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
#2
Ernest Eugene Frost
May 28, 1900 (Age 34 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 50 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 51 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 52 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 63 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 motherEmma Mary Curtis
June 9, 1930 (Age 64 years)
Death October 18, 1940 (Age 75 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Canyon Hill Cemetery
Family with parents - View this family
father
Robert McKenzie
Birth: March 15, 1840Venango, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: November 30, 1881Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States
mother
Emma Mary Curtis
Birth: September 10, 1847Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States
Death: June 9, 1930Willows, Glenn, California, United States
Marriage:
herself
Alice Elizabeth McKenzie
Birth: October 5, 1865 25 18Middleton, Canyon, Idaho, United States
Death: October 18, 1940Willows, Glenn, California, United States
Family with Byron Frost - View this family
husband
Byron Frost
Birth: October 24, 1863 42 23Susanville, Lassen, California, United States
Death: May 8, 1950Los Angeles, California, United States
herself
Alice Elizabeth McKenzie
Birth: October 5, 1865 25 18Middleton, Canyon, Idaho, United States
Death: October 18, 1940Willows, Glenn, California, United States
Marriage: December 15, 1891Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States
5 years
daughter
4 years
son
Ernest Eugene Frost
Birth: May 28, 1900 36 34Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States
Death: December 25, 1981Placerville, El Dorado, California, United States

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