The Shemwell Family

Alice Virginia BellAge: 89 years19112000

Name
Alice Virginia Bell
Given names
Alice Virginia
Surname
Bell
Married name
Alice Virginia Tilbury
Birth February 27, 1911
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 4 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 5 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 6 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 18 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
after 1939 (Age 27 years)

Note: Alice would have married Henry after the death of his first wife Geneva in 1939
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 30 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
Census April 14, 1950 (Age 39 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 38 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 husbandHenry Wilson Tilbury Sr
August 20, 1972 (Age 61 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 34 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 March 25, 2000 (Age 89 years)
Obituary
Alice Bell Tilbury Obituary
March 27, 2000 (2 days after death)
Associate: Henry Wilson Tilbury Jr
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Bell-Pinkston Cemetery
Family with Henry Wilson Tilbury Sr - View this family
husband
herself
Alice Virginia Bell
Birth: February 27, 1911Louisiana, United States
Death: March 25, 2000Bastrop, Morehouse, Louisiana, United States
Marriage: after 1939
Henry Wilson Tilbury Sr + Geneva C Pinkston - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Marriage: about 1932Louisiana, United States
2 years
step-son
Henry Wilson Tilbury Jr
Birth: 1933 37 41Louisiana, United States
Death: November 1, 2000Cleburne, Arkansas, United States

No family available

Marriage
Alice would have married Henry after the death of his first wife Geneva in 1939
Census1950 United States - Census transcript - Henry Wilson Tilbury Sr - Household

Morehouse, Louisiana, United States

NameRelationSexRaceAgeCondBPNatDoing last weekHours WorkedOccupationIndustryClass
Tilbury, Henry WheadMW53MarOKWk60FarmerFarming
Tilbury, Alice BwifeFW39MarLAHPractical NurseDoctor
Tilbury, Henry W JrsonMW17MarLAOt