Mordecia “Decia” ThompsonAge: 64 years1867–1931
- Name
- Mordecia “Decia” Thompson
- Given names
- Mordecia
- Surname
- Thompson
- Married name
- Mordecia Shemwell
- Nickname
- Decia
- Nickname
- Maudie
 Birth | February 1867 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 23 months)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Milous Green Shemwell — View this family after 1891 (Age 23 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Lovie Shemwell October 24, 1893 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | John Daniel Shemwell July 29, 1895 (Age 28 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Moses Wurth Shemwell August 1897 (Age 30 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 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 33 years) |
| Census | April 18, 1910 (Age 43 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 |
| Marriage of a child | Moses Wurth Shemwell — Lela May Reed — View this family 1918 (Age 50 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 50 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/ |
| Marriage of a child | Clint Randle Smith — Lovie Shemwell — View this family November 3, 1919 (Age 52 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John Daniel Shemwell — Lucy May Johnson — View this family December 27, 1919 (Age 52 years) |
| Census | January 1, 1920 (Age 52 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Edna Earl Shemwell November 23, 1920 (Age 53 years) |
| Death of a husband | Milous Green Shemwell December 7, 1921 (Age 54 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | John Nell Shemwell June 17, 1924 (Age 57 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 62 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 63 years) |
 Death | August 31, 1931 (Age 64 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Shemwell Cemetery Note: (Decia, Green and Emma are on one stone.) |
| Family with Milous Green Shemwell |
| husband |
Milous Green Shemwell Birth: July 1860 37 35 — Kentucky, United States Death: December 7, 1921 — Oak Level, Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
| herself |
Mordecia “Decia” Thompson Birth: February 1867 — Kentucky, United States Death: August 31, 1931 — Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: after 1891 — |
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3 years daughter |
Lovie Shemwell Birth: October 24, 1893 33 26 — Kentucky, United States Death: February 22, 1988 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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21 months son |
John Daniel Shemwell Birth: July 29, 1895 35 28 — Kentucky, United States Death: March 17, 1957 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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2 years son |
Moses Wurth Shemwell Birth: August 1897 37 30 — Kentucky, United States Death: December 7, 1961 — Vanzora, Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
| Milous Green Shemwell + Emma Holmes |
| husband |
Milous Green Shemwell Birth: July 1860 37 35 — Kentucky, United States Death: December 7, 1921 — Oak Level, Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
| husband’s wife |
Emma Holmes Birth: 1870 Death: 1891 |
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Marriage: January 23, 1889 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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11 months step-son |
Elzy Clifford Shemwell Birth: December 27, 1889 29 19 — Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States Death: January 1987 — Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona, United States |
No family available
| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Green Miles Shemwell - Household
Oak Level, Marshall Ky.
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| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Milous Greene Shemwell - Household
Graves, Kentucky
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| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Green Miles Shemwell - Household
Oak Level, Marshall, Ky.
Notes: Living next door to William, Rex & Martha Shemwell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - Mordecia Thompson - Household
Civil District 4 Oak Level, Marshall Ky.
Notes: Census Age wrong? -Living around Family -B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burial | (Decia, Green and Emma are on one stone.) |