The Shemwell Family

Name
Roy Mack Powers
Given names
Roy Mack
Surname
Powers
Birth December 18, 1904 37 34
Death of a maternal grandmotherMary Jane “Judy” McCown
January 13, 1905 (Age 26 days)
Birth of a sisterHattie Powers
January 7, 1909 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterBertha Mae Powers
March 5, 1909 (Age 4 years)
Census April 19, 1910 (Age 5 years)
Death of a sisterHattie Powers
June 7, 1910 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a sisterRubye Avis Powers
January 31, 1913 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 11 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 12 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 13 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/
Census January 13, 1920 (Age 15 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherMary Ann “Polly” Kittrell
March 13, 1927 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 24 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 motherGeorgia Mae McCown
June 12, 1944 (Age 39 years)
Marriage of a parentGeorge Washington PowersLucille N View this family
after 1944 (Age 39 years)

Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 36 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 of a fatherGeorge Washington Powers
January 14, 1953 (Age 48 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 45 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 brotherGeorge Elmer Powers
February 12, 1960 (Age 55 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 41 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 of a sisterMary Mabel Powers
September 22, 1982 (Age 77 years)

Death January 27, 1989 (Age 84 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Woodlawn Cemetery
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