The Shemwell Family

Woodrow Samuel BabbAge: 80 years19161996

Name
Woodrow Samuel Babb
Given names
Woodrow Samuel
Surname
Babb
Birth June 26, 1916
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916

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 6 months)

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 18 months)

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 13 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
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 25 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
Birth of a son
#1
Woodrow Samuel Babb Jr
October 12, 1947 (Age 31 years)
Census April 7, 1950 (Age 33 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 33 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 29 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 November 13, 1996 (Age 80 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: IOOF Cemetery
Family with Vivian Lorene Cox - View this family
himself
Woodrow Samuel Babb
Birth: June 26, 1916Tywappity, Mississippi, Missouri, United States
Death: November 13, 1996Sikeston, Scott, Missouri, United States
wife
Vivian Lorene Cox
Birth: January 11, 1917 26 24Mill Spring, Wayne, Missouri, United States
Death: March 9, 2002Bertrand, Mississippi, Missouri, United States
daughter
Private
son
Woodrow Samuel Babb Jr
Birth: October 12, 1947 31 30Cairo, Alexander, Illinois, United States
Death: July 30, 2019Bertrand, Mississippi, Missouri, United States

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