The Shemwell Family

Name
Herman Luther Tutwiler
Given names
Herman Luther
Surname
Tutwiler
Birth April 1, 1873 30 27
Death of a maternal grandmotherSusannah Rawley
December 13, 1873 (Age 8 months)
Cause: Typhoid Pneumonia
Birth of a brotherHomer Statton Tutwiler
May 25, 1878 (Age 5 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 4 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 maternal grandfatherWilliam E Sandy
April 13, 1898 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 25 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 sisterLuella Virginia Tutwiler
September 6, 1904 (Age 31 years)

Death of a fatherPeter Calvin Tutwiler
December 11, 1913 (Age 40 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 42 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 43 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 44 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 56 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 of a motherSarah Ann Sandy
November 4, 1931 (Age 58 years)
Death of a brotherEugene Calvin Tutwiler Sr.
April 12, 1944 (Age 71 years)
Cause: Dead when seen
Burial of a brotherEugene Calvin Tutwiler Sr.
April 15, 1944 (Age 71 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 68 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 July 29, 1944 (Age 71 years)
Burial
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