The Shemwell Family

Franklin Olaf JohnsonAge: 66 years18911958

Name
Franklin Olaf Johnson
Given names
Franklin Olaf
Surname
Johnson
Birth March 6, 1891 31 24
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 7 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
Census June 2, 1900 (Age 9 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 24 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 25 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 26 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 fatherMadge “Mads” Johnson
July 25, 1924 (Age 33 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 38 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 motherHannah Pederson
November 2, 1932 (Age 41 years)
Census 1935 (Age 43 years)
Census April 9, 1940 (Age 49 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 50 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
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 58 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 54 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death 1958 (Age 66 years)

Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Stuart Cemetery
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father
mother
Marriage: about 1889Nebraska, United States
2 years
himself
Family with Ruth Alice Fuller - View this family
himself
wife
Ruth Alice Fuller
Birth: 1902 41 33Nebraska, United States
Death: August 1975Nebraska, United States
daughter
Private

Census1900 United States - Census transcript - Madge “Mads” Johnson - Household

Stuart, Holt, Nebraska, United States

NameRelationRaceSexMonthYearAgeCondMarrCHBCHLBPFBPMBPImmUSNatOccupationUnempSchoolReadWriteEngHomeMortFarm
Johnson, MadgeheadWMJun185940M11DenmarkDenmarkDenmarkDairyman0YesYesYesOFH
Johnson, HannahwifeWFFeb186535M1133NorwayNorwayNorwayYesYesYes
Johnson, FredadaughterWFJan189010SNEDenmarkNorway9YesYesYes
Johnson, FranksonWMMar18919SNEDenmarkNorway9YesYesYes
Johnson, ChestersonWMApr18973SNEDenmarkNorway
Pederson, Clarasister-in-lawWFJune187425SNorwayNorwayNorwayYesYesYes