The Shemwell Family

Anna Brown Herndon1862

Name
Anna Brown Herndon
Given names
Anna Brown
Surname
Herndon
Married name
Anna Brown Turley
Birth 1862 28 19
Birth of a brotherWilliam H Herndon
1864 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Birth of a brotherJohn W Herndon
1866 (Age 4 years)
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 5 years)
Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic
1867 (Age 5 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Birth of a brotherLester H Herndon
1868 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 7 years)

Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
Birth of a sisterElla B Herndon
1871 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a brotherJames G Herndon
1873 (Age 11 years)
Death of a motherElizabeth Pope
February 14, 1873 (Age 11 years)

Death of a paternal grandfatherBenjamin Zachery Herndon
August 7, 1873 (Age 11 years)
Marriage of a parentGeorge Clark HerndonLucinda WindsorView this family
Type: Religious marriage
May 19, 1874 (Age 12 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 16 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Census June 30, 1880 (Age 18 years)
MarriageWilliam H TurleyView this family
1882 (Age 20 years)

Death of a fatherGeorge Clark Herndon
May 24, 1885 (Age 23 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherSusan Fox
December 21, 1885 (Age 23 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 36 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 54 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 55 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 56 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 67 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 brotherLester H Herndon
December 8, 1932 (Age 70 years)
Cause: Tuberculosis
Burial of a brotherLester H Herndon
1932 (Age 70 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mt. Olive Cemetery
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 79 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 brotherBenjamin Thomas Herndon
December 2, 1949 (Age 87 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 88 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 84 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: January 26, 1858Cooper, Missouri, United States
17 months
elder brother
4 years
herself
3 years
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
Lester H Herndon
Birth: 1868 34 25Missouri, United States
Death: December 8, 1932El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States
4 years
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
Father’s family with Lucinda Windsor - View this family
father
step-mother
Marriage: May 19, 1874Knob Noster, Johnson, Missouri, United States
Family with William H Turley - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: 1882

Anna Brown Herndon has 31 first cousins recorded

Census1880 United States - Census transcript - George Clark Herndon - Household

NameColorSexAgeMonRelationCondMYOccupationUnEmSickBlindDDIdioticInsaneDisabledSchoolReadWriteBPFBPMBP
Herndon, George CWM47headMfarmerMOVAKY
Herndon, LucindaWF47wifeMMOTNKY
Herndon, Benjamin TWM20sonSMOMOKY
Herndon, Anna BWF18daughterSMOMOKY
Herndon, Lester HWM12sonSMOMOKY
Herndon, Wiliam HWM16sonSMOMOKY
Herndon, John WWM14sonSMOMOKY
Herndon, Ella BWF9daughterSMOMOKY
Herndon, James GWM7sonSMOMOKY
Herndon, SusanWF79motherWdKYMAMA