The Shemwell Family

Effie Alice KarnesAge: 85 years18671952

Name
Effie Alice Karnes
Given names
Effie Alice
Surname
Karnes
Married name
Effie Alice Rives
Birth 1867
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867
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
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 2 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 11 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 31 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
MarriageZeno John RivesView this family
January 31, 1905 (Age 38 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Helen Jane Rives
June 2, 1907 (Age 40 years)
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 43 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 49 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 50 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 51 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/
Marriage of a childJack Barner TroutmanHelen Jane RivesView this family
June 30, 1928 (Age 61 years)
Birth of a grandson
#1
Philip I Troutman
April 7, 1929 (Age 62 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 62 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
Birth of a grandson
#2
Infant Troutman
January 31, 1932 (Age 65 years)
Death of a grandsonInfant Troutman
January 31, 1932 (Age 65 years)
Birth of a grandson
#3
David Barner Troutman
April 8, 1938 (Age 71 years)
Death of a husbandZeno John Rives
September 2, 1939 (Age 72 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 74 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
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 83 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 79 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death 1952 (Age 85 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Graceland Cemetery
Family with Zeno John Rives - View this family
husband
Zeno John Rives
Birth: February 22, 1874Greenfield, Hancock, Indiana, United States
Death: September 2, 1939Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States
herself
Marriage: January 31, 1905St. Louis, Missouri, United States
2 years
daughter

Census1910 United States - Census transcript - Zeno John Rives - Household

Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois, United States

NameRelationSexRaceAgeCondMarrCHBCHLBPFBPMBPImmNatLangOccupationIndEmpUnempUnempRWSchHomeMortFarmCWBlindDeaf
Rives, Zeno JheadMW36M5INNCNCEnglishAttorneyLawOAYesYesOMH
Rives, Effie AwifeFW35M533OHOHOHEnglishNoneYesYes
Rives, MargaretdaughterFW4SILINOHNone
Rives, HelendaughterFW2SILINOHNone
Rives, James AsonMW0 years 10 monthsSILINOHNone