The Shemwell Family

Kathryn V BrownAge: 35 years19081944

Name
Kathryn V Brown
Given names
Kathryn V
Surname
Brown
Married name
Kathryn V Tollett
Birth June 10, 1908
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 7 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 8 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 9 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/
MarriageElijah Gore TollettView this family
July 16, 1927 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 21 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 husbandElijah Gore Tollett
September 27, 1943 (Age 35 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 33 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 January 14, 1944 (Age 35 years)
Family with Elijah Gore Tollett - View this family
husband
Elijah Gore Tollett
Birth: March 18, 1888 40 34Nine Mile, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Death: September 27, 1943Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
herself
Kathryn V Brown
Birth: June 10, 1908Tennessee, United States
Death: January 14, 1944Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: July 16, 1927Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States

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