The Shemwell Family

Name
Dollie Dell Webb
Given names
Dollie Dell
Surname
Webb
Married name
Dollie Dell Kerley
Birth June 3, 1899 42 37
Census June 19, 1900 (Age 12 months)
Birth of a sisterRebecca Webb
December 14, 1901 (Age 2 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherJames Monroe Webb Sr.
July 10, 1905 (Age 6 years)
Census May 2, 1910 (Age 10 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 16 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
MarriageThomas McKinley KerleyView this family
February 17, 1918 (Age 18 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 17 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 18 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/
Marriage of a parentJesse Brown WebbEmma Jane BurgessView this family
after 1918 (Age 18 years)

Death of a motherSarah Jane Hale
July 14, 1923 (Age 24 years)
Birth of a half-sisterAlice Webb
December 8, 1925 (Age 26 years)
Death of a brotherOrdie R Webb
1925 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 30 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 brotherThomas Monroe Webb
January 19, 1936 (Age 36 years)
Cause: Frozen to death
Death of a fatherJesse Brown Webb
December 25, 1937 (Age 38 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 42 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 50 years)
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
Death of a husbandThomas McKinley Kerley
March 4, 1960 (Age 60 years)
Death of a sisterLucy Ann Webb
February 15, 1967 (Age 67 years)
Death of a sisterEllen Alyanna “Zena” Webb
March 14, 1969 (Age 69 years)

Death of a sisterPray Winnie Webb
April 6, 1970 (Age 70 years)
Death of a sisterDorsie Webb
September 23, 1972 (Age 73 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 46 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 of a sisterRebecca Webb
January 28, 1988 (Age 88 years)
Death of a sisterMattie Mae Webb
December 10, 1988 (Age 89 years)
Death of a brotherJames Leffle Webb
July 28, 1991 (Age 92 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Frank Webb
August 13, 1992 (Age 93 years)
Death September 30, 1996 (Age 97 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Crossville City Cemetery
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