Lester H HerndonAge: 64 years1868–1932
- Name
- Lester H Herndon
- Given names
- Lester H
- Surname
- Herndon
 Birth | 1868 34 25 |
 Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 12 months)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 sister | Ella B Herndon 1871 (Age 3 years) |
| Birth of a brother | James G Herndon 1873 (Age 5 years) |
| Death of a mother | Elizabeth Pope February 14, 1873 (Age 5 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Benjamin Zachery Herndon August 7, 1873 (Age 5 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | George Clark Herndon — Lucinda Windsor — View this family Type: Religious marriage May 19, 1874 (Age 6 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 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 12 years) |
| Death of a father | George Clark Herndon May 24, 1885 (Age 17 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Susan Fox December 21, 1885 (Age 17 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 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 | March 30, 1900 (Age 32 years) |
| Census | January 29, 1910 (Age 42 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 50 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/ |
| Census | February 2, 1920 (Age 52 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 61 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 17, 1930 (Age 62 years) |
 Death | December 8, 1932 (Age 64 years) Cause of death: Tuberculosis |
 Burial | 1932 (Age 64 years) Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mt. Olive Cemetery |
| Family with parents |
| father |
George Clark Herndon Birth: January 28, 1833 30 31 — Missouri, United States Death: May 24, 1885 — Cooper, Missouri, United States |
| mother |
Elizabeth Pope Birth: about January 27, 1842 — Kentucky, United States Death: February 14, 1873 |
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Marriage: January 26, 1858 — Cooper, Missouri, United States |
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17 months elder brother |
Benjamin Thomas Herndon Birth: July 7, 1859 26 17 — Cooper, Missouri, United States Death: December 2, 1949 — Marshall, Saline, Missouri, United States |
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4 years elder sister |
Anna Brown Herndon Birth: 1862 28 19 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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3 years elder brother |
William H Herndon Birth: 1864 30 21 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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3 years elder brother |
John W Herndon Birth: 1866 32 23 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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3 years himself |
Lester H Herndon Birth: 1868 34 25 — Missouri, United States Death: December 8, 1932 — El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States |
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4 years younger sister |
Ella B Herndon Birth: 1871 37 28 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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3 years younger brother |
James G Herndon Birth: 1873 39 30 — Missouri, United States Death: |
| Father’s family with Lucinda Windsor |
| father |
George Clark Herndon Birth: January 28, 1833 30 31 — Missouri, United States Death: May 24, 1885 — Cooper, Missouri, United States |
| step-mother |
Lucinda Windsor Birth: 1833 Death: |
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Marriage: May 19, 1874 — Knob Noster, Johnson, Missouri, United States |
Lester H Herndon has 31 first cousins recorded
Father's family (31)
Parents William James Herndon + Mary E McMahan
Parents John A Fray + Martha Elizabeth Herndon
Parents Col. Christopher Columbus Higgerson + Mary Frances Herndon
Mother's family (0)
| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - George Clark Herndon - Household
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| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Lester H Herndon - Household
Sunshine Station, Alaska, United States
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| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Lester H Herndon - Household
Cook Inlet, Alaska, United States
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| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Lester H Herndon - Household
Saline, Missouri, United States
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| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - Lester Morgan Herndon - Household
Saline, Missouri, United States
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