The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	October 21, 1860 26 16 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 5 months) 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 6 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 6 years) New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Marriage of a parent	Brigham Young Sr. — Mary Van Cott — View this family Type: Religious marriage June 8, 1868 (Age 7 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 8 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 half-sister	Fannie Van Cott Young January 14, 1870 (Age 9 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Death of a paternal grandfather	Henry Cobb August 20, 1872 (Age 11 years) Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	John Willard Young — View this family September 18, 1877 (Age 16 years) Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 17 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 mother	Mary Van Cott January 5, 1884 (Age 23 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Death of a paternal grandmother	Augusta Adams February 3, 1886 (Age 25 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 37 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
Death of a father	James Thornton Cobb February 1, 1910 (Age 49 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 55 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 56 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 57 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	July 19, 1920 (Age 59 years) Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Burial	Mountain View Cemetery, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mountain View Cemetery

Date differences

Family with parents - View this family

father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Mary Van Cott Luella Lucy Cobb James Thornton Cobb Birth: December 15, 1833 35 32 — Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Death: February 1, 1910 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse James Thornton Cobb Luella Lucy Cobb Family with spouse Brigham Young Sr. Fannie Van Cott Young Mary Van Cott Birth: February 2, 1844 — Canaan, Columbia, New York, United States Death: January 5, 1884 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Marriage: October 18, 1859 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1 year herself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse John Willard Young Luella Lucy Cobb Birth: October 21, 1860 26 16 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death: July 19, 1920 — Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States

Mother’s family with Brigham Young Sr. - View this family

step-father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Miriam Angeline Works Elizabeth Young Vilate Young Family with spouse Mary Ann Angell Joseph Angell Young Sr. Mary Ann Young Brigham Young Jr. Alice Young Luna Caroline Young John Willard Young Family with spouse Lucy Ann “Luca” Decker Brigham Heber Young Fanny Decker Young Ernest Irving Young Sr. Shamira Young Arta DeCrista Young Sr. Feramorz Little Young Clarissa Hamilton Young Family with spouse Augusta Adams Family with spouse Harriett Elizabeth Cook Oscar Brigham Young Sr. Family with spouse Clarissa Caroline “Clara” Decker Jeannette Richards Young Nabbie Howe Young Jedediah Grant Young Albert Jeddie Young Charlotte Tallula Young Family with spouse Emily Dow Partridge Edward Partridge Young Emily Augusta Young Caroline Partridge Young Joseph Don Carlos Young Miriam Young Josephine Young Laura Young Family with spouse Clarissa Ross Mary Eliza Young Clarissa Maria Young Willard Young Phoebe Louisa Young Family with spouse Louisa Beaman Moroni Young Hyrum Young Joseph Young Alma Burtts Young Alva Beaman Young Family with spouse Elizabeth “Betsy” Fairchild Family with spouse Eliza Roxcy Snow Family with spouse Clarissa “Clara” Blake Family with spouse Rebecca Greenleaf Holman Family with spouse Diana Severance Chase Family with spouse Susannah “Susan” Snively Julia Young Family with spouse Olive Gray Frost Family with spouse Mary Ann Clark Family with spouse Margaret Pierce Brigham Morris Young Sr. Family with spouse Mary Harvey Pierce Family with spouse Emmeline Free Ella Elizabeth Young Miranda Hyde Young Hyrum Smith Young Emeline Amanda Young Louisa Wells Young Lorenzo Dow Young Alonzo Young Ruth Young Daniel Wells Young Ardelle Elwin “Adella” Young Family with spouse Mary Elizabeth Rollins Family with spouse Margaret Maria Alley Evelyn Louisa Young Mahonri Moriancumer Young Family with spouse Emily Haws Family with spouse Olive Martha Andrews Family with spouse Martha Bowker Ida Ames Young Family with spouse Ellen Rockwood Family with spouse Abigail Jerusha Marks Family with spouse Jemima Angell Family with spouse Phebe Ann Morton Family with spouse Cynthia Porter Family with spouse Maria Lawrence Family with spouse Rhoda Richards Family with spouse Mary Eliza Nelson Family with spouse Zina Diantha Huntington Zina Presendia Young Family with spouse Amy Cecilia Cooper Family with spouse Mary Ellen de la Montaigne Family with spouse Abigail Harback Family with spouse Mary Ann Turley Family with spouse Julia Foster Family with spouse Naamah Kendel Jenkins Carter Family with spouse Nancy Cressy Family with spouse Jane Terry Family with spouse Mary Jane Bigelow Family with spouse Lucy Bigelow Eudora Lovina “Dora” Young Susan Amelia “Susa” Young Rhoda Mabel Young Family with spouse Sarah Malin Family with spouse Eliza Burgess Alfales Young Family with spouse Mary Oldfield Family with spouse Eliza Babcock Family with spouse Catherine Reese Family with spouse Harriet Emeline Barney Royal Barney Young Mary Lola Young Joseph Ormal Young Sarah Emeline Young Phineas Howe Young Infant Young Family with spouse Harriett Amelia Folsom Family with spouse Ann Eliza Webb Family with spouse Mary Van Cott Fannie Van Cott Young Family with spouse Elizabeth Jones Family with spouse Lydia Farnsworth Family with spouse Hannah Dorcas Tapfield Brigham Young Sr. Birth: June 1, 1801 38 36 — Whitingham, Windham, Vermont, United States Death: August 29, 1877 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse James Thornton Cobb Luella Lucy Cobb Family with spouse Brigham Young Sr. Fannie Van Cott Young Mary Van Cott Birth: February 2, 1844 — Canaan, Columbia, New York, United States Death: January 5, 1884 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Marriage: June 8, 1868 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
19 months half-sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Fannie Van Cott Young Birth: January 14, 1870 68 25 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death: January 31, 1950 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Family with John Willard Young - View this family

husband	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Luella Lucy Cobb John Willard Young Birth: October 1, 1844 43 41 — Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Death: February 17, 1924 — Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
herself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse John Willard Young Luella Lucy Cobb Birth: October 21, 1860 26 16 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death: July 19, 1920 — Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States
	Marriage: September 18, 1877 — Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States

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Family with parents
father Parents Henry Cobb Augusta Adams	James Thornton Cobb 1833–1910
mother Parents (unknown)	Mary Van Cott 1844–1884
herself Family John Willard Young	Luella Lucy Cobb 1860–1920
Mother’s family with Brigham Young Sr.
step-father Parents John Young Abigail “Nabby” Howe	Brigham Young Sr. 1801–1877
mother Parents (unknown)	Mary Van Cott 1844–1884
half-sister Family (none)	Fannie Van Cott Young 1870–1950
Family with John Willard Young
husband Parents Brigham Young Sr. Mary Ann Angell	John Willard Young 1844–1924
herself Parents James Thornton Cobb Mary Van Cott	Luella Lucy Cobb 1860–1920