The Shemwell Family

Sonoma Elizabeth McCallonAge: 82 years18481930

Name
Sonoma Elizabeth McCallon
Given names
Sonoma Elizabeth
Surname
McCallon
Married name
Sonoma Elizabeth Baxter
Birth 1848 33 20
Census June 14, 1850 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 9 years)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 13 years)

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
MarriageThomas Jefferson BaxterView this family
November 3, 1867 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 19 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 19 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 21 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 30 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 fatherWilliam T McCallon
June 7, 1886 (Age 38 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 50 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 motherLavicy Carriger
January 26, 1910 (Age 62 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 68 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 69 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 70 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 husbandThomas Jefferson Baxter
1928 (Age 80 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 81 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 1930 (Age 82 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Stuart Cemetery
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Lavicy Carriger
Birth: July 13, 1827Carter, Tennessee, United States
Death: January 26, 1910Clay, Andrew, Missouri, United States
Marriage: October 6, 1842Andrew, Missouri, United States
6 years
herself
Family with Thomas Jefferson Baxter - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: November 3, 1867Fremont, Iowa, United States
daughter
son
daughter
daughter
son

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Census1850 United States - Census transcript - William T McCallon - Household

Jackson, Andrew, Missouri, United States

NameRelationAgeSexColorOccupationREBirthplaceMarSchoolR+WInfirm
Wm McCallonhead35MWFarmer1500TN
Lavina McCallonwife21FWTN
James McCallonson6MWMOx
Christian McCallonson5MWMOx
Susannah E McCallondaughter1FWMO