 Birth | October 22, 1881 28 22 |
 Birth of a sister | Delia Frances Shemwell June 1883 (Age 19 months) Note: or Nebraska, USA |
| Birth of a brother | Eber Edward “Dob” Shemwell December 11, 1885 (Age 4 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Susan Dorothy “Susie” Shemwell October 11, 1888 (Age 6 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Floyd Shemwell March 12, 1892 (Age 10 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Charles Lafayette “Charlie” Shemwell May 11, 1895 (Age 13 years) |
| Death of a brother | Alpha Shemwell November 7, 1897 (Age 16 years) Cause: Typhoid fever |
| Birth of a brother | Harry Arthur Shemwell May 23, 1898 (Age 16 years) |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 16 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 1, 1900 (Age 18 years) |
| Census | April 15, 1910 (Age 28 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 34 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 35 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 36 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/ |
| Census | 1920 (Age 38 years) Note: Living alone |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 47 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 1, 1930 (Age 48 years) |
| Census | April 1, 1940 (Age 58 years) |
| Death of a father | Charles Lafayette “Fate” Shemwell April 17, 1942 (Age 60 years) |
 Military | WW2 Draft April 27, 1942 (Age 60 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 60 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 of a mother | Mary Harriet Sherrod September 26, 1946 (Age 64 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 64 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 | December 4, 1949 (Age 68 years) |
 Burial | Address: Plot: WALLA-MV-71-25-14 Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mountain View Cemetery |