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Ruth Agnes PlasterAge: 45 years19041949

Name
Ruth Agnes Plaster
Given names
Ruth Agnes
Surname
Plaster
Birth April 14, 1904 41 40
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 11 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 12 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
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Spanish Influenza Epidemic
1918 (Age 13 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 motherMinerva Jane “Minnie” Parham
December 16, 1919 (Age 15 years)
Death of a fatherThomas E Plaster Jr
March 7, 1921 (Age 16 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherSarah Elizabeth Shockley
June 6, 1926 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 25 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
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World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 37 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
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 41 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
Death May 25, 1949 (Age 45 years)
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father
mother
Marriage: June 28, 1885Hayes Mill, Texas, Missouri, United States
10 months
elder sister
Myrtle Ann Plaster
Birth: April 20, 1886 23 22Cabool, Texas, Missouri, United States
Death: January 19, 1956Almartha, Ozark, Missouri, United States
3 years
elder sister
Mable Elizabeth Plaster
Birth: January 17, 1889 26 25Douglas, Missouri, United States
Death: May 29, 1952Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States
2 years
elder sister
3 years
elder brother
William Otto Plaster
Birth: July 27, 1893 31 29Birch Tree, Shannon, Missouri, United States
Death: April 26, 1953Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
7 years
elder sister
Elva A Plaster
Birth: November 20, 1900 38 37Missouri, United States
Death: September 20, 1901
3 years
herself
Ruth Agnes Plaster
Birth: April 14, 1904 41 40Mountain Grove, Wright, Missouri, United States
Death: May 25, 1949Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio, United States

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