The Shemwell Family

Roy W WardAge: 28 years18991928

Name
Roy W Ward
Given names
Roy W
Surname
Ward
Birth December 25, 1899
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 16 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 17 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 18 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/
MarriageMaude Lillian ComleyView this family
about 1919 (Age 19 years)

Birth of a son
#1
Roy Ward Pearce Sr.
February 21, 1919 (Age 19 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Dorothy Bettye Pearce
March 1, 1922 (Age 22 years)
Death June 10, 1928 (Age 28 years)
Family with Maude Lillian Comley - View this family
himself
Roy W Ward
Birth: December 25, 1899Salem, Dent, Missouri, United States
Death: June 10, 1928St. Louis, Missouri, United States
wife
Marriage: about 1919
2 months
son
Roy Ward Pearce Sr.
Birth: February 21, 1919 19 16St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Death: June 18, 1991Ft. Pierce, St. Lucie, Florida, United States
3 years
daughter
Dorothy Bettye Pearce
Birth: March 1, 1922 22 19St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Death: September 10, 1991Broward, Florida, United States
Starling Charles Pearce + Maude Lillian Comley - View this family
wife’s husband
Starling Charles Pearce
Birth: February 8, 1903 39 30Walnut Ridge, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States
Death: November 20, 1981Broward, Florida, United States
wife
Marriage: after 1930