The Shemwell Family

Oscar Roda PendleyAge: 67 years18771944

Name
Oscar Roda Pendley
Given names
Oscar Roda
Surname
Pendley
Birth April 18, 1877
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 8 months)

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 20 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
Doris Lorene Pendley
November 6, 1912 (Age 35 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 38 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 39 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 40 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/
Census January 9, 1920 (Age 42 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 52 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
Census April 3, 1930 (Age 52 years)
Birth of a grandson
#1
James Donald McCoy
February 9, 1936 (Age 58 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 64 years)

Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Death October 1, 1944 (Age 67 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Newton Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
Family with Loretta “Rettie” Harris - View this family
himself
Oscar Roda Pendley
Birth: April 18, 1877Butler, Kentucky, United States
Death: October 1, 1944McCracken, Kentucky, United States
wife
Loretta “Rettie” Harris
Birth: November 6, 1892 32 26Kentucky, United States
Death: November 1, 1974Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
daughter
daughter
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