The Shemwell Family

Name
Elza Arthur Williams
Given names
Elza Arthur
Surname
Williams
Birth January 25, 1885 37 37
Birth of a brotherJesse Thomas Williams
January 10, 1888 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a sisterLaura Belle Williams
November 1889 (Age 4 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherOsburn P Hood
September 21, 1895 (Age 10 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 13 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 15 years)
Death of a motherMary Jane Hood
May 10, 1907 (Age 22 years)
Marriage of a parentGreen Asbury WilliamsCynthia Emaline MatlockView this family
January 31, 1911 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 30 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 31 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 32 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 brotherJesse Thomas Williams
May 29, 1921 (Age 36 years)
Death of a fatherGreen Asbury Williams
March 8, 1925 (Age 40 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 44 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 September 1, 1935 (Age 50 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: High Cemetery
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