The Shemwell Family

Name
William Jesse Brady
Given names
William Jesse
Surname
Brady
Birth November 9, 1888 19 17
Marriage of a parentCharles WilliamsLouella “Lula” Carrie ShemwellView this family
Type: Religious marriage
May 25, 1889 (Age 6 months)
Death of a paternal grandfatherJames W Brady
June 21, 1889 (Age 7 months)
Marriage of parentsGeorge William BradyLouella “Lula” Carrie ShemwellView this family
1890 (Age 13 months)

Birth of a sisterVirginia Gayle Brady
November 24, 1891 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherAndrew Louis Brady
May 15, 1895 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 9 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
Census June 7, 1900 (Age 11 years)
Birth of a sisterEdna Lee “Betty” Brady
July 6, 1902 (Age 13 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherMartha Jane Gayle
November 15, 1902 (Age 14 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherGeorge Morton Shemwell
July 29, 1904 (Age 15 years)
Marriage of a parentJames Harvey LuceLouella “Lula” Carrie ShemwellView this family
May 3, 1915 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 27 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Military
WWI Draft Registration
1917 (Age 28 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 28 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 29 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 motherLouella “Lula” Carrie Shemwell
January 15, 1922 (Age 33 years)
Cause: Cancer
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 40 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 fatherGeorge William Brady
July 5, 1934 (Age 45 years)
Cause: Suicide
Death July 26, 1936 (Age 47 years)
Cause of death: heat stroke
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Graceland Park Cemetery
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