The Shemwell Family

Elmira Elaine “Ella” HartmanAge: 73 years18601933

Name
Elmira Elaine “Ella” Hartman
Given names
Elmira Elaine
Surname
Hartman
Nickname
Ella
Married name
Elmira Elaine Lewis
Birth September 14, 1860
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 6 months)

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
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 6 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 6 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 8 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
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 17 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
MarriageReece Ely LewisView this family
February 17, 1898 (Age 37 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 37 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 son
#1
Reece Cart Lewis
May 14, 1902 (Age 41 years)
Census May 5, 1910 (Age 49 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 55 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 56 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 57 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/
Birth of a granddaughter
#1
Velma Lee Lewis
November 26, 1927 (Age 67 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 69 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 December 21, 1933 (Age 73 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mount Hope Cemetery
Family with Reece Ely Lewis - View this family
husband
Reece Ely Lewis
Birth: December 1850Illinois, United States
Death: August 1937Colwich, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States
herself
Elmira Elaine “Ella” Hartman
Birth: September 14, 1860Castleton, Marion, Indiana, United States
Death: December 21, 1933Mount Hope, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States
Marriage: February 17, 1898Sedgwick, Kansas, United States
4 years
son

No family available

Census1910 United States - Census transcript - Reece Ely Lewis - Household

Charlotte, Bates, Missouri, United States

NameRelationSexRaceAgeCondMarrCHBCHLBPFBPMBPImmNatLangOccupationIndEmpUnempUnempRWSchHomeMortFarmCWBlindDeaf
Lewis, ReeceheadMW59M213OHOHOHEnglishFarmerGeneral FarmOAYesYesRF
Lewis, Ella MwifeFW48M11333INPAPAEnglishNoneYesYes
Lewis, EdithdaughterFW11SKSOHINEnglishNoneYesYes
Lewis, Lela FdaughterFW10SMOOHINEnglishNoneYesYesYes
Lewis, Reece CsonMW7SMOOHINNoneYes