The Shemwell Family

Mary C SmithAge: 70 years18511921

Name
Mary C Smith
Given names
Mary C
Surname
Smith
Married name
Mary C Frost
Birth March 1851
Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 5 years)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 10 years)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 15 years)
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 15 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 17 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
MarriageJoseph Hiram FrostView this family
September 21, 1871 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Evelyn Isabelle Frost
September 22, 1872 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Arthur Valorus Frost Sr.
May 1875 (Age 24 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 26 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 47 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
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 64 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 65 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 66 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/
Death October 21, 1921 (Age 70 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Chico Cemetery
Family with Joseph Hiram Frost - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: September 21, 1871San Joaquin, California, United States
1 year
daughter
Evelyn Isabelle Frost
Birth: September 22, 1872 20 21California, United States
Death: July 19, 1951Alameda, California, United States
3 years
son
Joseph Hiram Frost + Minnie Eleise Rath - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Minnie Eleise Rath
Birth: November 12, 1865Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States
Death: December 14, 1939Seattle, King, Washington, United States
Marriage: about 1890

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