The Shemwell Family

William Luther ChurchAge: 26 years19111937

Name
William Luther Church
Given names
William Luther
Surname
Church
Birth February 7, 1911
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 4 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 5 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 6 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 18 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 June 27, 1937 (Age 26 years)
Family with Alma Estelle Haney - View this family
himself
William Luther Church
Birth: February 7, 1911Marion, McDowell, North Carolina, United States
Death: June 27, 1937Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States
wife
daughter
Private
Howard Duval Hoover + Alma Estelle Haney - View this family
wife’s husband
wife
Marriage: about 1939
Divorce: before 1941
Carl Garner Fisher + Alma Estelle Haney - View this family
wife’s husband
Carl Garner Fisher
Birth: June 10, 1917 21 19Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 9, 1999Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
wife
step-son
Private

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