The Shemwell Family

Name
Andrew Jackson Hinch
Given names
Andrew Jackson
Surname
Hinch
Birth October 12, 1856 30 26
Birth of a brotherThomas Hinch
October 26, 1858 (Age 2 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherAnn “Anna” Parham
March 1, 1859 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 2 months)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Census July 13, 1860 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherCharles Hinch
September 22, 1860 (Age 3 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherJohn Samuel Hinch
July 25, 1862 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a sisterNancy Hinch
March 15, 1864 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 4 years)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Birth of a brotherSamuel C Hinch
April 10, 1867 (Age 10 years)
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 10 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 10 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 12 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
Census July 13, 1870 (Age 13 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 21 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a sisterMary Ann Hinch
May 28, 1879 (Age 22 years)
MarriageAmanda Elizabeth “Manda” ThurmanView this family
October 8, 1879 (Age 22 years)
Census June 21, 1880 (Age 23 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 41 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 brotherCharles Hinch
August 29, 1900 (Age 43 years)
Death of a brotherSamuel C Hinch
March 4, 1906 (Age 49 years)
Death of a brotherThomas Hinch
August 13, 1907 (Age 50 years)
Death of a motherAnnie Malinda Sherrill
February 26, 1909 (Age 52 years)
Death of a fatherWilliam Hinch
March 23, 1909 (Age 52 years)
Death of a sisterNancy Hinch
January 28, 1910 (Age 53 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 59 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 60 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 61 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/
Death of a brotherCraven Hinch
August 2, 1928 (Age 71 years)
Death of a brotherJames Nathan Hinch
January 6, 1929 (Age 72 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 72 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 November 8, 1929 (Age 73 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Woodinville Memorial Cemetery
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