The Shemwell Family

Name
Tirzah Shaw
Given names
Tirzah
Surname
Shaw
Married name
Tirzah McFarlane
Birth February 20, 1867 40 39
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867
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
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 22 months)

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 3 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 10 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 19 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 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 35 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Dudley Shaw
August 7, 1913 (Age 46 years)
Burial of a brotherWilliam Dudley Shaw
August 10, 1913 (Age 46 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
Death of a sisterRosabelle Shaw
February 9, 1914 (Age 46 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 48 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 51 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 49 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 50 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 53 years)
Death of a brotherFrancis “Frank” Shaw
January 28, 1922 (Age 54 years)
Death of a brotherAmbrose E Shaw
February 6, 1927 (Age 59 years)
Burial of a brotherAmbrose E Shaw
February 9, 1927 (Age 59 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 62 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 sisterIna Shaw
September 18, 1938 (Age 71 years)
Burial of a sisterIna Shaw
September 21, 1938 (Age 71 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
Death of a sisterRomania L Shaw
July 14, 1939 (Age 72 years)
Burial of a sisterRomania L Shaw
July 16, 1939 (Age 72 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 74 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
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 78 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 December 21, 1948 (Age 81 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ogden City Cemetery
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