The Shemwell Family

Name
Hazel T Frost
Given names
Hazel T
Surname
Frost
Birth about 1907 23 24
Birth of a sisterMaud Frost
about 1908 (Age 12 months)
Birth of a sisterLucile Frost
June 17, 1909 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherThomas Simpson Frost II
May 30, 1911 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterMary Virginia “Gena” Frost
March 23, 1916 (Age 9 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 9 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 10 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 11 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 22 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 paternal grandmotherMary Jane “Deck” Inmon
December 31, 1929 (Age 22 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherThomas Simpson Frost
May 5, 1937 (Age 30 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 34 years)

Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 43 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Death of a fatherClaud Inman Frost
December 4, 1960 (Age 53 years)
Death of a motherLeota Shepherd
August 4, 1968 (Age 61 years)
Death of a brotherThomas Simpson Frost II
September 20, 1968 (Age 61 years)
Burial of a brotherThomas Simpson Frost II
September 23, 1968 (Age 61 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Forest Park East Cemetery
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 39 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death of a sisterLucile Frost
February 17, 1995 (Age 88 years)

Death of a sisterMary Virginia “Gena” Frost
September 18, 2001 (Age 94 years)
Burial of a sisterMary Virginia “Gena” Frost
September 21, 2001 (Age 94 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Johnson County Chapel and Memorial Gardens
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