The Shemwell Family

Charles E CarpenterAge: 72 years18661938

Name
Charles E Carpenter
Given names
Charles E
Surname
Carpenter
Birth 1866
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 12 months)
Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic
1867 (Age 12 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 3 years)

Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 12 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 32 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
MarriageAnna T HorganView this family
January 29, 1899 (Age 33 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Margaret Carpenter
August 1, 1909 (Age 43 years)
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 44 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 50 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 51 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 52 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 63 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 1938 (Age 72 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Fairmount Cemetery
Family with Anna T Horgan - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: January 29, 1899Logan, Oklahoma, United States
11 years
daughter
Margaret Carpenter
Birth: August 1, 1909 43 34Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States
Death: August 25, 1998Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States

No family available

Census1910 United States - Census transcript - Charles E Carpenter - Household

Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States

NameRelationSexRaceAgeCondMarrCHBCHLBPFBPMBPImmNatLangOccupationIndEmpUnempUnempRWSchHomeMortFarmCWBlindDeaf
Carpenter, Charles EheadMW44M1ILILILEnglishFarmerGeneral FarmEmpNo0YesYesOFH
Carpenter, Annie TwifeFW33M11233ILIrelandCanadaEnglishNoneYesYes
Carpenter, Phyllis MdaughterFW10SOKILILEnglishYesYesYes
Carpenter, Charles BsonMW9SOKILILEnglishYesYesYes
Carpenter, MargaretdaughterFW0 years 8 monthsSOKILIL