The Shemwell Family

Name
Joseph Smith Kimball
Given names
Joseph Smith
Surname
Kimball
Birth December 22, 1851 50 41
Birth of a half-brotherNewel Whitney Kimball
May 19, 1852 (Age 4 months)
Birth of a half-brotherWillard Heber Kimball
June 25, 1853 (Age 18 months)
Death of a half-brotherWillard Heber Kimball
December 15, 1854 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a half-sisterLydia Holmes Kimball
January 18, 1855 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a half-brotherHorace Heber Kimball
September 3, 1855 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a half-sisterAnna Spaulding Kimball
March 18, 1857 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a half-sisterSarah Maria Kimball
May 4, 1857 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a half-sisterEliza Kimball
May 14, 1859 (Age 7 years)
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
Birth of a half-brotherJoshua Heber Kimball
February 23, 1861 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a half-brotherJoshua Heber Kimball
October 22, 1862 (Age 10 years)
Birth of a half-brotherWashington Heber Kimball
October 22, 1862 (Age 10 years)
Death of a half-brotherJoshua Heber Kimball
about 1863 (Age 11 years)
Birth of a half-brotherFranklin Heber Kimball
August 28, 1864 (Age 12 years)
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 9 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
Death of a half-brotherFranklin Heber Kimball
about 1865 (Age 13 years)
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
Death of a fatherHeber Chase Kimball
June 24, 1868 (Age 16 years)
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
Death of a half-brotherOliver Norman Buell
April 22, 1872 (Age 20 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
Death of a motherPresendia Lathrop Huntington
February 1, 1892 (Age 40 years)
Death of a half-sisterHelen Mar Kimball
November 13, 1896 (Age 44 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 46 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 half-brotherGeorge Willard Buell
July 4, 1900 (Age 48 years)
Death of a half-sisterSarah Maria Kimball
August 12, 1901 (Age 49 years)
Death of a half-sisterEliza Kimball
May 18, 1906 (Age 54 years)
Death of a half-brotherWashington Heber Kimball
September 26, 1914 (Age 62 years)
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
Death of a half-brotherJohn Heber Kimball
November 29, 1918 (Age 66 years)
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 of a half-brotherHorace Heber Kimball
October 29, 1922 (Age 70 years)
Death of a half-brotherJoshua Heber Kimball
April 6, 1925 (Age 73 years)
Death of a half-brotherDavid Heber Kimball
October 4, 1927 (Age 75 years)
Death of a half-sisterLydia Holmes Kimball
April 15, 1928 (Age 76 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 77 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 half-brotherNewel Whitney Kimball
July 24, 1931 (Age 79 years)
Death of a half-sisterAnna Spaulding Kimball
November 26, 1932 (Age 80 years)
Death March 29, 1936 (Age 84 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery
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