The Shemwell Family

Name
Francis “Frank” Shaw
Given names
Francis
Surname
Shaw
Nickname
Frank
Birth May 2, 1865 38 37
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
Birth of a sisterTirzah Shaw
February 20, 1867 (Age 21 months)
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 19 months)
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 19 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 3 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
Birth of a brotherClarence Shaw
March 15, 1870 (Age 4 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 12 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 motherDiana Severance Chase
September 6, 1886 (Age 21 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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 fatherWilliam Montgomery Shaw
December 27, 1902 (Age 37 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Dudley Shaw
August 7, 1913 (Age 48 years)
Burial of a brotherWilliam Dudley Shaw
August 10, 1913 (Age 48 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
Death of a sisterRosabelle Shaw
February 9, 1914 (Age 48 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 50 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 brotherClarence Shaw
March 9, 1918 (Age 52 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 51 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 52 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 sisterGenevra Shaw
July 23, 1920 (Age 55 years)
Death January 28, 1922 (Age 56 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
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