The Shemwell Family

Name
Dexter Pearce
Given names
Dexter
Surname
Pearce
Birth February 2, 1906 42 33
Death of a brotherMilburn Pearce
December 9, 1909 (Age 3 years)
Census May 4, 1910 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterAddie Christine Pearce
April 5, 1914 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 9 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 10 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 11 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 January 17, 1920 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 23 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 fatherJerry Newman Pearce
October 3, 1930 (Age 24 years)
Census April 2, 1940 (Age 34 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 35 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 August 7, 1942 (Age 36 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Pinecrest Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum
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