The Shemwell Family

Albert Frank NelsonAge: 37 years18661903

Name
Albert Frank Nelson
Given names
Albert Frank
Surname
Nelson
Birth about 1866
Note: Birth info based on 1870 Census
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
MarriageLillie Lucretia ButlerView this family
August 26, 1892 (Age 26 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Frankie Nelson
July 14, 1893 (Age 27 years)
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
Death between 1903 and 1910 (Age 37 years)
Note: His last child was born in Nov 1903 and his wife, Lillie, is listed as a Widow in the 1910 Census
Family with Lillie Lucretia Butler - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: August 26, 1892St. Louis, Missouri, United States
11 months
daughter
Frankie Nelson
Birth: July 14, 1893 27 22Kansas, United States
Death: June 12, 1952Belle Plaine, Sumner, Kansas, United States

No family available

Birth
Birth info based on 1870 Census
Death
His last child was born in Nov 1903 and his wife, Lillie, is listed as a Widow in the 1910 Census