The Shemwell Family

Name
Irene Isabelle Gilley
Given names
Irene Isabelle
Surname
Gilley
Birth June 26, 1909 22 18
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 9 months)
Birth of a brotherLeslie Euless Gilley
May 3, 1912 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a sisterFrances Grace Gilley
October 11, 1913 (Age 4 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 6 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Birth of a brotherHarold Paul Gilley
January 23, 1918 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 7 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 8 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/
Census January 20, 1920 (Age 10 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 20 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
Birth of a sisterMattie Lou Gilley
February 6, 1930 (Age 20 years)
Census April 14, 1930 (Age 20 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherJames Monroe Daugherty
January 6, 1932 (Age 22 years)
Associate: George Washington Daugherty
Associate: Francis “Fanny” McGehee
Death of a sisterMattie Lou Gilley
February 6, 1932 (Age 22 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherMargaret Frances McBride
July 15, 1934 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 32 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 40 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 fatherWilliam Franklin Gilley
January 29, 1966 (Age 56 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 36 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 motherMattie Gordon Daugherty
December 24, 1977 (Age 68 years)
Death of a brotherLeslie Euless Gilley
October 26, 1985 (Age 76 years)
Death January 31, 1995 (Age 85 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ash Creek Cemetery
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