The Shemwell Family

Name
Ella Maude Taylor
Given names
Ella Maude
Surname
Taylor
Married name
Ella Maude Bittick
Birth June 11, 1909 41 42
Birth of a brotherTaylor
about 1911 (Age 18 months)
Death of a brotherTaylor
about 1911 (Age 18 months)
Birth of a sisterVirginia Elizabeth “Virgie” Taylor
May 5, 1912 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 6 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Death of a sisterVirginia Elizabeth “Virgie” Taylor
October 11, 1918 (Age 9 years)
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 7 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 8 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 fatherJohn Harvey Fry Taylor
August 14, 1926 (Age 17 years)
Death of a motherMary Caroline Coombes
May 22, 1927 (Age 17 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Mary Lewgene Hulda “Gene” Bittick
December 17, 1928 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 20 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 daughter
#2
Bonita Hazel “Bonnie” Bittick
March 20, 1930 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Pearlene Elloree Bittick
August 9, 1938 (Age 29 years)
Birth of a son
#4
Lynnard Wallace “Corky” Bittick
March 11, 1941 (Age 31 years)
Birth of a daughter
#5
Norva Marrienn Bittick
October 12, 1942 (Age 33 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 32 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 40 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
Death of a brotherJames Thomas “Tom” Taylor
January 12, 1954 (Age 44 years)
Birth of a grandson
#1
Douglas Burl Newell
December 27, 1954 (Age 45 years)
Death of a grandsonDouglas Burl Newell
December 27, 1954 (Age 45 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#2
Carrie Ellan Newell
August 1, 1960 (Age 51 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Lewis Taylor
December 6, 1964 (Age 55 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 36 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 February 6, 1973 (Age 63 years)
Burial
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