The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	July 28, 1863 51 39 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Death of a brother	Cornelius John Willes December 5, 1863 (Age 4 months) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Death of a father	Ira Jones Willes December 5, 1863 (Age 4 months) Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
Historical Event	American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 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 3 years) Alaska, USA 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 3 years) New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Death of a brother	Ira Pratt Willes December 27, 1869 (Age 6 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 5 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
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 14 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 maternal grandmother	Permelia Darrow January 6, 1882 (Age 18 years) Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
Death of a sister	Polly Melissa Willes January 21, 1887 (Age 23 years) Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
Death of a mother	Melissa Lott July 13, 1898 (Age 34 years) Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 34 years) Cuba 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 52 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 53 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 54 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 brother	Lyman Benjamin Willes January 12, 1926 (Age 62 years) Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
Death of a brother	Stephen Eleazer Willes November 13, 1927 (Age 64 years) Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
Historical Event	The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 66 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
Historical Event	World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 78 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 86 years) South Korea 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
Historical Event	Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 82 years) Vietnam 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	April 12, 1955 (Age 91 years) Los Angeles, California, United States
Burial	Twin Fall Cemetery, Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Twin Falls Cemetery

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father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Melissa Lott Ira Pratt Willes Achsah Permelia Willes Cornelius John Willes Polly Melissa Willes Lyman Benjamin Willes Stephen Eleazer Willes Sarah Amanda Willes Ira Jones Willes Birth: January 21, 1812 — Berne, Albany, New York, United States Death: December 5, 1863 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Joseph Smith Jr. Family with spouse John Milton Bernhisel Family with spouse Ira Jones Willes Ira Pratt Willes Achsah Permelia Willes Cornelius John Willes Polly Melissa Willes Lyman Benjamin Willes Stephen Eleazer Willes Sarah Amanda Willes Melissa Lott Birth: January 9, 1824 25 18 — Tunkhannock, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States Death: July 13, 1898 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Marriage: May 13, 1848 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
23 months elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Ira Pratt Willes Birth: April 22, 1850 38 26 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States Death: December 27, 1869 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
22 months elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Achsah Permelia Willes Birth: February 12, 1852 40 28 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States Death: March 21, 1856 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
3 years elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Cornelius John Willes Birth: August 8, 1854 42 30 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States Death: December 5, 1863 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
2 years elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Polly Melissa Willes Birth: November 7, 1856 44 32 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States Death: January 21, 1887 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
2 years elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Lyman Benjamin Willes Birth: April 19, 1859 47 35 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States Death: January 12, 1926 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
23 months elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Stephen Eleazer Willes Birth: March 21, 1861 49 37 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death: November 13, 1927 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
2 years herself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Sarah Amanda Willes Birth: July 28, 1863 51 39 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death: April 12, 1955 — Los Angeles, California, United States

Mother’s family with Joseph Smith Jr. - View this family

step-father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Emma Hale Alvin Smith Julia Murdock-Smith Joseph Murdock-Smith Louisa Smith Thaddeus Smith Joseph Smith III Frederick Granger Williams Smith Alexander Hale Smith Don Carlos Smith David Hyrum Smith Family with spouse Elvira Ann Cowles Family with spouse Clarissa Reed Family with spouse Frances Ward “Fanny” Alger Family with spouse Lucinda Pendleton Family with spouse Louisa Beaman Family with spouse Zina Diantha Huntington Family with spouse Presendia Lathrop Huntington Family with spouse Sally Ann Fuller Family with spouse Agnes Moulton Coolbrith Family with spouse Mary Elizabeth Rollins Family with spouse Sylvia Porter Sessions Family with spouse Patty Bartlett Family with spouse Marinda Nancy Johnson Family with spouse Elizabeth “Eliza” Davis Family with spouse Sarah Marietta Kingsley Family with spouse Eliza Roxcy Snow Family with spouse Delcena Diademia Johnson Family with spouse Sarah Ann Whitney Family with spouse Sarah Bapson Family with spouse Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer Family with spouse Martha McBride Family with spouse Ruth Daggett Vose Family with spouse Emily Dow Partridge Family with spouse Eliza Maria Partridge Family with spouse Helen Mar Kimball Family with spouse Flora Ann Woodworth Family with spouse Rhoda Richards Family with spouse Fanny Young Family with spouse Almera Woodard Johnson Family with spouse Olive Gray Frost Family with spouse Olive Martha Andrews Family with spouse Nancy Mariah “Mary” Winchester Family with spouse Maria Lawrence Family with spouse Sarah Lawrence Family with spouse Lucy Walker Family with spouse Melissa Lott Family with spouse Sarah Scott Family with spouse Mary Houston Joseph Smith Jr. Birth: December 23, 1805 34 30 — Sharon, Windsor, Vermont, United States Death: June 27, 1844 — Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Joseph Smith Jr. Family with spouse John Milton Bernhisel Family with spouse Ira Jones Willes Ira Pratt Willes Achsah Permelia Willes Cornelius John Willes Polly Melissa Willes Lyman Benjamin Willes Stephen Eleazer Willes Sarah Amanda Willes Melissa Lott Birth: January 9, 1824 25 18 — Tunkhannock, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States Death: July 13, 1898 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Marriage: September 20, 1843 — Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

Mother’s family with John Milton Bernhisel - View this family

step-father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Melissa Lott John Milton Bernhisel Birth: June 23, 1799 — Loysville, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Death: September 28, 1881 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Joseph Smith Jr. Family with spouse John Milton Bernhisel Family with spouse Ira Jones Willes Ira Pratt Willes Achsah Permelia Willes Cornelius John Willes Polly Melissa Willes Lyman Benjamin Willes Stephen Eleazer Willes Sarah Amanda Willes Melissa Lott Birth: January 9, 1824 25 18 — Tunkhannock, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States Death: July 13, 1898 — Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Marriage: February 8, 1846 — Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

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Family with parents
father Parents (unknown)	Ira Jones Willes 1812–1863
mother Parents Cornelius Peter Lott Permelia Darrow	Melissa Lott 1824–1898
elder brother Family (none)	Ira Pratt Willes 1850–1869
elder sister Family (none)	Achsah Permelia Willes 1852–1856
elder brother Family (none)	Cornelius John Willes 1854–1863
elder sister Family (none)	Polly Melissa Willes 1856–1887
elder brother Family (none)	Lyman Benjamin Willes 1859–1926
elder brother Family (none)	Stephen Eleazer Willes 1861–1927
herself Family (none)	Sarah Amanda Willes 1863–1955
Mother’s family with Joseph Smith Jr.
step-father Parents Joseph Smith Lucy Mack	Joseph Smith Jr. 1805–1844
mother Parents Cornelius Peter Lott Permelia Darrow	Melissa Lott 1824–1898
Mother’s family with John Milton Bernhisel
step-father Parents (unknown)	John Milton Bernhisel 1799–1881
mother Parents Cornelius Peter Lott Permelia Darrow	Melissa Lott 1824–1898