The Shemwell Family

Gray Haggard BaconAge: 67 years18641931

Name
Gray Haggard Bacon
Given names
Gray Haggard
Surname
Bacon
Birth January 6, 1864 33 23
MarriageFrances Catherine BurnsView this family
unknown

Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 2 years)
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 2 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 4 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 13 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a fatherJohn Harrison Bacon
1892 (Age 27 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 34 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
Birth of a daughter
#1
Zella Gray Bacon
September 20, 1906 (Age 42 years)
Address: Rockwood, Roane, TN
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 51 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 motherJane Haggard
1917 (Age 52 years)

Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 52 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 53 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 65 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 July 12, 1931 (Age 67 years)
Family with parents - View this family
father
John Harrison Bacon
Birth: 1831Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Death: 1892Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
mother
Marriage: April 10, 1859
5 years
himself
Gray Haggard Bacon
Birth: January 6, 1864 33 23Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Death: July 12, 1931Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Family with Frances Catherine Burns - View this family
himself
Gray Haggard Bacon
Birth: January 6, 1864 33 23Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Death: July 12, 1931Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States
wife
Marriage:
daughter
Zella Gray Bacon
Birth: September 20, 1906 42 32Tennessee, United States
Death: March 2, 2002Prince George's, Maryland, United States

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