The Shemwell Family

Geneva C PinkstonAge: 47 years18921939

Name
Geneva C Pinkston
Given names
Geneva C
Surname
Pinkston
Married name
Geneva C Tilbury
Birth 1892

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 6 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
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 24 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 25 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 26 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 37 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
MarriageHenry Wilson Tilbury SrView this family
about 1932 (Age 40 years)
Note: Marriage year/place based on the birth of their son, Henry.
Birth of a son
#1
Henry Wilson Tilbury Jr
1933 (Age 41 years)
Death 1939 (Age 47 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Christ Church Cemetery
Family with Henry Wilson Tilbury Sr - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: about 1932Louisiana, United States
2 years
son
Henry Wilson Tilbury Jr
Birth: 1933 37 41Louisiana, United States
Death: November 1, 2000Cleburne, Arkansas, United States
Henry Wilson Tilbury Sr + Alice Virginia Bell - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Alice Virginia Bell
Birth: February 27, 1911Louisiana, United States
Death: March 25, 2000Bastrop, Morehouse, Louisiana, United States
Marriage: after 1939

No family available

Marriage
Marriage year/place based on the birth of their son, Henry.