The Shemwell Family

Name
Olive Belle “Ollie” Miller
Given names
Olive Belle
Surname
Miller
Nickname
Ollie
Married name
Olive Belle Kerley
Birth November 12, 1888 24 21
Birth of a brotherThomas Arthur Miller
August 1, 1890 (Age 20 months)
Birth of a sisterIda Francis “Lucy” Miller
March 22, 1893 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a brotherJames Emmett Miller
April 24, 1896 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 9 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
Birth of a sisterMillie J Miller
September 18, 1898 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Ernest Miller
February 13, 1900 (Age 11 years)
Census June 13, 1900 (Age 11 years)
Birth of a sisterNora Angeline Miller
December 23, 1901 (Age 13 years)
Birth of a sisterHazel Pearl Miller
January 31, 1905 (Age 16 years)
Birth of a sisterMayme Evelyn Miller
November 2, 1907 (Age 18 years)
Birth of a brotherTheodore Norman “Ted” Miller
September 26, 1909 (Age 20 years)
Census April 27, 1910 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a brotherChester Alton Miller
August 19, 1911 (Age 22 years)
MarriageThomas Jefferson KerleyView this family
December 30, 1913 (Age 25 years)

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 27 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 28 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 29 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 maternal grandfatherRev. William Benjamin Brewer
July 31, 1920 (Age 31 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 40 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 maternal grandmotherRebecca Jane Webb
March 23, 1936 (Age 47 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 53 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 brotherJames Emmett Miller
October 16, 1945 (Age 56 years)
Death of a fatherHouston Burnside Miller
January 12, 1946 (Age 57 years)
Death of a sisterNora Angeline Miller
April 12, 1950 (Age 61 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 61 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 husbandThomas Jefferson Kerley
May 9, 1962 (Age 73 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Ernest Miller
September 3, 1962 (Age 73 years)
Death of a motherSarah Ann Brewer
September 19, 1964 (Age 75 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 57 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 October 22, 1974 (Age 85 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Green Acres Memorial Gardens
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