The Shemwell Family

Isabelle “Belle” CottenAge: 64 years18731937

Name
Isabelle “Belle” Cotten
Given names
Isabelle
Surname
Cotten
Nickname
Belle
Married name
Isabelle Frost
Birth April 11, 1873
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 4 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
MarriageSevier White FrostView this family
about 1891 (Age 17 years)

Birth of a son
#1
Snow Frost
July 21, 1892 (Age 19 years)
Death of a sonSnow Frost
July 27, 1892 (Age 19 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Frost
October 6, 1895 (Age 22 years)
Death of a sonFrost
October 6, 1895 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 24 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
#3
Ruth P Frost
September 7, 1899 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 42 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 43 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 44 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 56 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 December 31, 1937 (Age 64 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Oaklawn Cemetery
Family with Sevier White Frost - View this family
husband
Sevier White Frost
Birth: October 29, 1864 39 22Missouri, United States
Death: January 31, 1957Washington, District of Columbia, United States
herself
Isabelle “Belle” Cotten
Birth: April 11, 1873Oklahoma, United States
Death: December 31, 1937Sulphur, Murray, Oklahoma, United States
Marriage: about 1891
19 months
son
Snow Frost
Birth: July 21, 1892 27 19Dougherty, Murray, Oklahoma, United States
Death: July 27, 1892Dougherty, Murray, Oklahoma, United States
3 years
son
Frost
Birth: October 6, 1895 30 22Dougherty, Murray, Oklahoma, United States
Death: October 6, 1895Dougherty, Murray, Oklahoma, United States
4 years
daughter
Ruth P Frost
Birth: September 7, 1899 34 26Dougherty, Murray, Oklahoma, United States
Death: October 12, 1989Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States