The Shemwell Family

Samuel Lewis BucknerAge: 59 years18701930

Name
Samuel Lewis Buckner
Given names
Samuel Lewis
Surname
Buckner
Birth March 23, 1870 26 24
Birth of a sisterMary Elizabeth Buckner
August 4, 1872 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 7 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 28 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
Death of a motherMariah Melvina Bennett
March 16, 1900 (Age 29 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 45 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Death of a fatherJohn Buckner
October 19, 1918 (Age 48 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 46 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 47 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 59 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 after 1930 (Age 59 years)

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father
mother
Mariah Melvina Bennett
Birth: February 26, 1846 23 19Worthington, Greene, Indiana, United States
Death: March 16, 1900Worthington, Greene, Indiana, United States
Marriage: November 23, 1865Greene, Indiana, United States
10 months
elder brother
Harlan Buckner
Birth: September 26, 1866 23 20Greene, Indiana, United States
Death: July 17, 1951Morris, Kansas, United States
17 months
elder brother
Walter Howard Buckner
Birth: March 10, 1868 24 22Richland, Greene, Indiana, United States
Death: September 20, 1942Kansas, United States
2 years
himself
Samuel Lewis Buckner
Birth: March 23, 1870 26 24Bloomfield, Greene, Indiana, United States
Death: after 1930
2 years
younger sister
Mary Elizabeth Buckner
Birth: August 4, 1872 29 26Richland, Greene, Indiana, United States
Death: February 22, 1962Centralia, Nemaha, Kansas, United States