The Shemwell Family

Name
Lula Loftin
Given names
Lula
Surname
Loftin
Married name
Lula Davis
Birth July 7, 1910 20 21
Birth of a brotherHoward Kernie Loftin
September 30, 1912 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Lee Loftin
April 9, 1913 (Age 2 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Lee Loftin
January 12, 1914 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a sisterJewel Loftin
July 9, 1916 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 5 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Death of a paternal grandmotherElizabeth Angelina Ward
August 3, 1918 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 6 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 7 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 of a paternal grandfatherWilliam Moses “Willy” Loftin
August 14, 1919 (Age 9 years)
Census January 21, 1920 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a sisterMable Marie Loftin
January 26, 1920 (Age 9 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 19 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
Census April 2, 1930 (Age 19 years)
MarriageJames Gray Davis Sr.View this family
June 29, 1933 (Age 22 years)
Death of a fatherZebulon Vance Loftin
January 24, 1944 (Age 33 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 31 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 39 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
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 35 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 motherFreda Venie Bean
December 21, 1977 (Age 67 years)
Death of a husbandJames Gray Davis Sr.
June 16, 1979 (Age 68 years)
Death of a sisterMable Marie Loftin
September 13, 1991 (Age 81 years)
Death of a brotherHoward Kernie Loftin
February 14, 1998 (Age 87 years)
Death November 22, 2000 (Age 90 years)
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