The Shemwell Family

John W RobertsAge: 35 years18651900

Name
John W Roberts
Given names
John W
Surname
Roberts
Birth 1865
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 2 years)
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 2 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 4 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 13 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
MarriageIda RairdenView this family
March 26, 1893 (Age 28 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Claude Morrill Roberts
March 25, 1894 (Age 29 years)
Census 1895 (Age 30 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 33 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 before 1900 (Age 35 years)

Family with Ida Rairden - View this family
himself
wife
Ida Rairden
Birth: August 1874New York, United States
Death: March 10, 1939Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States
Marriage: March 26, 1893Clay, Kansas, United States
1 year
son
Claude Morrill Roberts
Birth: March 25, 1894 29 19Greene, Sumner, Kansas, United States
Death: February 25, 1962Macon, Illinois, United States

No family available

CensusKansas State - Census transcript - John W Roberts - Household

Clay, Kansas, United States

NameRelationSexRaceAgeCondBPOccupation
Roberts, J WheadMW30INTeacher
Rairden, IdawifeFW20NY
Roberts, CharlessonMW1KS
Roberts, Jas??MW51IN
Roberts, L D??MW17IN