The Shemwell Family

Jennie SmithAge: 32 years18661898

Name
Jennie Smith
Given names
Jennie
Surname
Smith
Married name
Jennie Soward
Birth June 25, 1866
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 6 months)
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 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 2 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 11 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
MarriageJesse Benton SowardView this family
about 1886 (Age 19 years)
Note: Marriage info based on the birth of their first child
Birth of a daughter
#1
Alice Maude Soward
June 25, 1891 (Age 25 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 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 September 3, 1898 (Age 32 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Bryant Cemetery
Family with Jesse Benton Soward - View this family
husband
Jesse Benton Soward
Birth: January 21, 1863Vermilion, Illinois, United States
Death: March 19, 1949Kansas, United States
herself
Jennie Smith
Birth: June 25, 1866Greene, Illinois, United States
Death: September 3, 1898Butler, Kansas, United States
Marriage: about 1886Kansas, United States
6 years
daughter
Alice Maude Soward
Birth: June 25, 1891 28 25Latham, Butler, Kansas, United States
Death: October 22, 1960Alameda, Alameda, California, United States

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Marriage
Marriage info based on the birth of their first child