The Shemwell Family

Name
Benjamin Palmer Gage
Given names
Benjamin Palmer
Surname
Gage
Birth August 28, 1909 27 27
Census April 17, 1910 (Age 7 months)
Birth of a brotherYoung Gage
February 1, 1911 (Age 17 months)
Birth of a sisterCorene Gage
February 14, 1914 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterLorene Gage
February 14, 1914 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterInfant Gage
November 20, 1916 (Age 7 years)
Death of a sisterInfant Gage
November 20, 1916 (Age 7 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
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/
Birth of a brotherWoodrow Wilson Gage
July 29, 1919 (Age 9 years)
Census January 25, 1920 (Age 10 years)
Birth of a sisterAnn Carol Gage
September 3, 1921 (Age 12 years)
Birth of a brotherJerry Thomas Gage
November 26, 1924 (Age 15 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
Census April 1930 (Age 20 years)
Census April 9, 1940 (Age 30 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherMary Ann Phillipi
June 13, 1944 (Age 34 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
Death of a fatherJohn Edward Gage
October 22, 1945 (Age 36 years)
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 brotherJames Ausborn Gage
May 29, 1978 (Age 68 years)
Death of a brotherJohn Edward Gage Jr
between 1958 and 1979 (Age 48 years)
Note: In obituaries, he was listed as surviving his mother Lena (died in 1958) and not surviving his broth…
Death of a motherLena Daugherty
September 13, 1958 (Age 49 years)
Death of a sisterAnn Carol Gage
November 7, 1974 (Age 65 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 September 23, 1979 (Age 70 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Rialto Park Cemetery
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