The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	April 27, 1840 40 32 Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Birth of a sister	Hannah King about 1841 (Age 8 months) Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Birth of a brother	Andrew Cookson King August 31, 1841 (Age 16 months) Linton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Death of a brother	Andrew Cookson King March 9, 1842 (Age 22 months) Linton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Historical Event	Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 (Age 5 years) Texas, USA Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
Death of a sister	Georgiana King September 26, 1853 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event	Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 16 years) Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Historical Event	American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 20 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
Historical Event	The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 26 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 26 years) New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event	Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 28 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
Marriage of a parent	Brigham Young Sr. — Hannah Dorcas Tapfield — View this family Type: Religious marriage December 8, 1872 (Age 32 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Death of a father	Thomas Owen King Sr. November 16, 1874 (Age 34 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 37 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	Hannah Dorcas Tapfield September 25, 1886 (Age 46 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 57 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 sister	Louisa Helen King January 25, 1912 (Age 71 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Burial of a sister	Louisa Helen King January 29, 1912 (Age 71 years) Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery
Death of a sister	Bertha Mary King July 13, 1912 (Age 72 years) Truckee, Nevada, California, United States
Historical Event	Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 75 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 76 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 77 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	November 16, 1921 (Age 81 years) Almo, Cassia, Idaho, United States
Burial	November 21, 1921 (5 days after death) Sunny Cedar Rest Cemetery, Almo, Cassia, Idaho, United States Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Sunny Cedar Rest 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 Hannah Dorcas Tapfield Thomas Andrew King Margaret King Charlotte King Georgiana King Owen King Louisa Helen King Bertha Mary King Peter Tapfield King Thomas Owen King Jr. Hannah King Andrew Cookson King Thomas Owen King Sr. Birth: April 6, 1800 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: November 16, 1874 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Thomas Owen King Sr. Thomas Andrew King Margaret King Charlotte King Georgiana King Owen King Louisa Helen King Bertha Mary King Peter Tapfield King Thomas Owen King Jr. Hannah King Andrew Cookson King Family with spouse Brigham Young Sr. Hannah Dorcas Tapfield Birth: March 16, 1808 — Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: September 25, 1886 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Marriage: April 6, 1824 — England, United Kingdom
21 months elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Thomas Andrew King Birth: about 1825 24 16 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: about 1825 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
2 years elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Margaret King Birth: May 27, 1827 27 19 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: July 26, 1827 — Pampisford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
18 months elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Charlotte King Birth: November 14, 1828 28 20 — Pampisford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: April 29, 1829 — Pampisford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
23 months elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Georgiana King Birth: October 4, 1830 30 22 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: September 26, 1853
13 months elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Owen King Birth: November 14, 1831 31 23 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: March 7, 1840 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
3 years elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Louisa Helen King Birth: August 12, 1834 34 26 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: January 25, 1912 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
8 months elder sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Brigham Young Hampton Sr. Bertha Mary King Birth: April 7, 1835 35 27 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: July 13, 1912 — Truckee, Nevada, California, United States
2 years elder brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Peter Tapfield King Birth: April 5, 1837 36 29 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: April 6, 1838 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
3 years himself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Thomas Owen King Jr. Birth: April 27, 1840 40 32 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: November 16, 1921 — Almo, Cassia, Idaho, United States
20 months younger sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Hannah King Birth: about 1841 40 32 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death:
8 months younger brother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Andrew Cookson King Birth: August 31, 1841 41 33 — Linton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: March 9, 1842 — Linton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

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 Thomas Owen King Sr. Thomas Andrew King Margaret King Charlotte King Georgiana King Owen King Louisa Helen King Bertha Mary King Peter Tapfield King Thomas Owen King Jr. Hannah King Andrew Cookson King Family with spouse Brigham Young Sr. Hannah Dorcas Tapfield Birth: March 16, 1808 — Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Death: September 25, 1886 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Marriage: December 8, 1872 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

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Family with parents
father Parents (unknown)	Thomas Owen King Sr. 1800–1874
mother Parents (unknown)	Hannah Dorcas Tapfield 1808–1886
elder brother Family (none)	Thomas Andrew King 1825–1825
elder sister Family (none)	Margaret King 1827–1827
elder sister Family (none)	Charlotte King 1828–1829
elder sister Family (none)	Georgiana King 1830–1853
elder brother Family (none)	Owen King 1831–1840
elder sister Family (none)	Louisa Helen King 1834–1912
elder sister Family Brigham Young Hampton Sr.	Bertha Mary King 1835–1912
elder brother Family (none)	Peter Tapfield King 1837–1838
himself Family (none)	Thomas Owen King Jr. 1840–1921
younger sister Family (none)	Hannah King 1841–
younger brother Family (none)	Andrew Cookson King 1841–1842
Mother’s family with Brigham Young Sr.
step-father Parents John Young Abigail “Nabby” Howe	Brigham Young Sr. 1801–1877
mother Parents (unknown)	Hannah Dorcas Tapfield 1808–1886