The Shemwell Family

Addie S Edwards1872

Name
Addie S Edwards
Given names
Addie S
Surname
Edwards
Birth November 7, 1872 50 26

Death of a half-sisterMary Elizabeth Edwards
about 1874 (Age 13 months)

Birth of a brotherJames Edwards
May 1, 1875 (Age 2 years)

Birth of a brotherElbert Ovie Edwards
December 23, 1876 (Age 4 years)

Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 5 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Birth of a sisterMilen J Edwards
February 8, 1883 (Age 10 years)

Death of a fatherAndrew Jackson Edwards
September 28, 1885 (Age 12 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 25 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 43 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 44 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 45 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 motherAmanda Latham
July 26, 1920 (Age 47 years)

Death of a half-brotherWilliam Harrison Edwards
July 7, 1926 (Age 53 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 56 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 of a half-brotherHowell B Edwards
July 10, 1933 (Age 60 years)

Death of a sisterRosa Bell Edwards
November 27, 1938 (Age 66 years)

Death of a half-sisterAnnie Laura Edwards
May 11, 1941 (Age 68 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 69 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 77 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 brotherElbert Ovie Edwards
October 16, 1961 (Age 88 years)

Death of a sisterMilen J Edwards
March 1962 (Age 89 years)

Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 73 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
Deathunknown

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: 1869
2 years
elder sister
22 months
herself
3 years
younger brother
20 months
younger brother
6 years
younger sister
Father’s family with Arena Edwards - View this family
father
step-mother
Marriage: January 15, 1844Todd, Kentucky, United States
14 months
half-brother
3 years
half-brother
2 years
half-sister
2 years
half-sister
10 years
half-sister

Addie S Edwards has 21 first cousins recorded