The Shemwell Family

Melvin Whitehead PageAge: 67 years18741941

Name
Melvin Whitehead Page
Given names
Melvin Whitehead
Surname
Page
Birth January 22, 1874 35 30
Birth of a brotherWilliam Thomas Page
April 19, 1875 (Age 14 months)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 3 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 24 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 of a motherMary Elizabeth Page
1899 (Age 24 years)
Death of a fatherThomas Burwell Page
1904 (Age 29 years)
MarriageMattie Clementine PettyView this family
November 19, 1905 (Age 31 years)
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Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 41 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 42 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 43 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 55 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 March 9, 1941 (Age 67 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Bevil Cemetery
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mother
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Melvin Whitehead Page
Birth: January 22, 1874 35 30Weakley, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 9, 1941Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States
15 months
younger brother
William Thomas Page
Birth: April 19, 1875 37 31Weakley, Tennessee, United States
Death: November 21, 1959Henry, Tennessee, United States
Family with Mattie Clementine Petty - View this family
himself
Melvin Whitehead Page
Birth: January 22, 1874 35 30Weakley, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 9, 1941Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States
wife
Mattie Clementine Petty
Birth: May 16, 1872 23 21Henry, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 12, 1943Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: November 19, 1905Henry, Tennessee, United States
Adam B Emerson + Mattie Clementine Petty - View this family
wife’s husband
Adam B Emerson
Birth: March 1870Tennessee, United States
Death: November 28, 1902Henry, Tennessee, United States
wife
Mattie Clementine Petty
Birth: May 16, 1872 23 21Henry, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 12, 1943Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: August 6, 1890Henry, Tennessee, United States

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