The Shemwell Family

Name
Evaline Deborah “Debbie” Adkins
Given names
Evaline Deborah
Surname
Adkins
Nickname
Debbie
Married name
Evaline Deborah Edwards
Married name
Evaline Deborah Hubbs
Birth September 1872 15
Marriage of a parentCharles Clinton BarneyAmelia Emily FrostView this family
June 20, 1875 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 5 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Birth of a half-brotherDavid Edwin Barney
September 3, 1880 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a half-brotherJackson Lee Barney
July 25, 1886 (Age 13 years)
MarriageCornelius Abraham “Neil” HubbsView this family
July 22, 1889 (Age 16 years)
Death of a husbandCornelius Abraham “Neil” Hubbs
July 27, 1889 (Age 16 years)
MarriageCharles Henry EdwardsView this family
about 1891 (Age 18 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 25 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
Death of a maternal grandfatherJoseph Frost
April 6, 1908 (Age 35 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherDeborah Acord
December 20, 1912 (Age 40 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 43 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 44 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 45 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 of a half-brotherDavid Edwin Barney
August 1, 1919 (Age 46 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 57 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 motherAmelia Emily Frost
March 13, 1930 (Age 57 years)
Death September 26, 1938 (Age 66 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mountain View Cemetery
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