The Shemwell Family

Name
Ollie Jane Dicken
Given names
Ollie Jane
Surname
Dicken
Married name
Ollie Jane Randels
Married name
Ollie Jane Shanner
Birth March 25, 1888 49 34
Death of a maternal grandfatherGeorge Washington Powers
August 6, 1889 (Age 16 months)
Death of a motherMary Elizabeth Powers
January 11, 1893 (Age 4 years)
Marriage of a parentHardy Clemon DickenNancy Caroline PenningtonView this family
November 28, 1895 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 10 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
Census June 26, 1900 (Age 12 years)
MarriageMartin Smithers RandelsView this family
December 17, 1904 (Age 16 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Cleo Lanette Randels
January 10, 1906 (Age 17 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Martie Elizabeth Randels
December 2, 1907 (Age 19 years)
Census May 2, 1910 (Age 22 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Polly V Randels
about 1914 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 27 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 28 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 29 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/
Birth of a daughter
#4
Lena Marie Randels
March 14, 1919 (Age 30 years)
Census January 14, 1920 (Age 31 years)
Death of a brotherDewitt E Dicken
February 15, 1920 (Age 31 years)
Marriage of a childCleburn James WorleyMartie Elizabeth RandelsView this family
December 6, 1924 (Age 36 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherMary Ann “Polly” Kittrell
March 13, 1927 (Age 38 years)
Death of a fatherHardy Clemon Dicken
June 10, 1928 (Age 40 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 41 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
Marriage of a childVernie Edward RichardsonPolly V RandelsView this family
October 1, 1930 (Age 42 years)
MarriageCharles Luther ShannerView this family
April 8, 1937 (Age 49 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#1
Betty Combs
February 28, 1940 (Age 51 years)
Marriage of a childEugene W UplegerPolly V RandelsView this family
about 1942 (Age 53 years)

Death of a daughterCleo Lanette Randels
August 25, 1944 (Age 56 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 53 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 August 3, 1945 (Age 57 years)
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