The Shemwell Family

Amanda Jane GriceAge: 66 years18681934

Name
Amanda Jane Grice
Given names
Amanda Jane
Surname
Grice
Married name
Amanda Jane Tysinger
Birth April 18, 1868
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 8 months)

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
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 9 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
MarriageLee Albert TysingerView this family
March 4, 1888 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 29 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 47 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 48 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 49 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 61 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 July 29, 1934 (Age 66 years)
Family with Lee Albert Tysinger - View this family
husband
Lee Albert Tysinger
Birth: December 24, 1862 27 23Denton, Davidson, North Carolina, United States
Death: November 23, 1948Healing Springs, Davidson, North Carolina, United States
herself
Amanda Jane Grice
Birth: April 18, 1868Denton, Davidson, North Carolina, United States
Death: July 29, 1934High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States
Marriage: March 4, 1888Davidson, North Carolina, United States