The Shemwell Family

Name
Fred Clyde Selby
Given names
Fred Clyde
Surname
Selby
Birth June 15, 1899 48 37
Census June 19, 1900 (Age 12 months)
Death of a paternal grandmotherElizabeth W Kerley
October 17, 1900 (Age 16 months)
Death of a maternal grandmotherFrances C Vandever
June 16, 1901 (Age 2 years)

Birth of a sisterGeorgia Pearl Selby
February 7, 1902 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a sisterMinnie Selby
January 31, 1905 (Age 5 years)
Death of a sisterMinnie Selby
February 4, 1905 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a brotherEdward Casto Selby
about 1907 (Age 7 years)
Census May 4, 1910 (Age 10 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 16 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Death of a maternal grandfatherWilliam R Hyder
June 12, 1917 (Age 17 years)

Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 17 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 18 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 sisterGeorgia Pearl Selby
March 12, 1920 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a son
#1
William Monroe “Bill” Selby
July 6, 1923 (Age 24 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Edith Pearlee Selby
January 14, 1925 (Age 25 years)
Death of a daughterEdith Pearlee Selby
April 25, 1926 (Age 26 years)
Death of a fatherWilliam Monroe Selby
August 30, 1926 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Evelyn Frances Selby
November 13, 1926 (Age 27 years)
Death of a brotherNicholas Hoye “Nick” Selby
March 1, 1929 (Age 29 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 30 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
Census April 22, 1930 (Age 30 years)
Death of a brotherEdward Casto Selby
June 22, 1930 (Age 31 years)
Birth of a son
#4
Fred Clyde Selby Jr
September 17, 1930 (Age 31 years)
Birth of a son
#5
Edward Casto Selby
May 24, 1932 (Age 32 years)
Birth of a daughter
#6
Melba Selby
July 9, 1934 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a daughter
#7
Mable Selby
July 17, 1935 (Age 36 years)
Birth of a daughter
#8
Myrtle Louise Selby
September 4, 1936 (Age 37 years)
Census April 30, 1940 (Age 40 years)
Death of a motherMary Emily Hyder
August 5, 1942 (Age 43 years)
Cause: Bronchial Pneumonia
Birth of a son
#9
John Charles Selby
February 15, 1945 (Age 45 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 42 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
Birth of a granddaughter
#1
Daisy Mae Hedgecoth
November 10, 1948 (Age 49 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#2
Barbara Ellen “Barbi” Selby
April 29, 1949 (Age 49 years)
Census May 3, 1950 (Age 50 years)
Death of a granddaughterDaisy Mae Hedgecoth
November 21, 1951 (Age 52 years)
Cause: 2nd and 3rd degree burns
Marriage of a childLeonard OxnerMable SelbyView this family
March 18, 1952 (Age 52 years)
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 50 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
Birth of a grandson
#3
Michael Eugene Bane
June 22, 1958 (Age 59 years)
Marriage of a childRoy Lee WebbMelba SelbyView this family
about 1962 (Age 62 years)

Birth of a granddaughter
#4
Frances Leona Webb
November 17, 1963 (Age 64 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 46 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 July 28, 1968 (Age 69 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Greenwood Memorial Park
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