The Shemwell Family

Ovie Winter DavisAge: 52 years18761928

Name
Ovie Winter Davis
Given names
Ovie Winter
Surname
Davis
Married name
Ovie Winter Gibson
Birth July 23, 1876
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 17 months)

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 21 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
MarriageThomas Young Gibson Sr.View this family
May 18, 1904 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Richard Thomas Gibson
February 3, 1905 (Age 28 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Thomas Young Gibson Jr.
September 2, 1906 (Age 30 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 39 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 40 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 41 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 16, 1928 (Age 52 years)
Burial October 17, 1928 (1 day after death)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Cedar Grove Cemetery
Family with Thomas Young Gibson Sr. - View this family
husband
Thomas Young Gibson Sr.
Birth: February 4, 1869 24 36Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Death: June 10, 1950Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
herself
Ovie Winter Davis
Birth: July 23, 1876Tennessee, United States
Death: October 16, 1928Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: May 18, 1904Wilson, Tennessee, United States
9 months
son
Richard Thomas Gibson
Birth: February 3, 1905 35 28Old Hickory, Wilson, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 19, 1966Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
19 months
son
Thomas Young Gibson Jr.
Birth: September 2, 1906 37 30Wilson, Tennessee, United States
Death: June 6, 1986Macon, Bibb, Georgia, United States

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