The Shemwell Family

Sula May MillerAge: 52 years18871940

Name
Sula May Miller
Given names
Sula May
Surname
Miller
Married name
Sula May Long
Birth November 21, 1887 29 28
Birth of a brotherRufus Wilburn Miller
August 25, 1892 (Age 4 years)
Death of a brotherRufus Wilburn Miller
April 15, 1894 (Age 6 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 10 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 maternal grandfatherWilliam “Bill” Parham
November 15, 1910 (Age 22 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 28 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 29 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 30 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/
MarriageWilliam Atwood LongView this family
June 7, 1921 (Age 33 years)
Death of a fatherWilliam Luther Miller
October 25, 1927 (Age 39 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 41 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 April 3, 1940 (Age 52 years)
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Mary Emaline Parham
Birth: April 4, 1859 33 32Sequatchie Valley, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States
Death: December 1, 1946Cumberland, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: about 1881
14 months
elder brother
James Edgar Miller
Birth: March 12, 1882 24 22Cumberland, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 1975Kentucky, United States
3 years
elder sister
Dora Anna Miller
Birth: February 4, 1885 26 25Tennessee, United States
Death: June 1976Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
3 years
herself
Sula May Miller
Birth: November 21, 1887 29 28Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 3, 1940Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
5 years
younger brother
Rufus Wilburn Miller
Birth: August 25, 1892 34 33Cumberland, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 15, 1894Cumberland, Tennessee, United States
Family with William Atwood Long - View this family
husband
William Atwood Long
Birth: September 7, 1896Tennessee, United States
Death: September 13, 1958Orange, Florida, United States
herself
Sula May Miller
Birth: November 21, 1887 29 28Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 3, 1940Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: June 7, 1921Rhea, Tennessee, United States