The Shemwell Family

Myrtle Welch Walker1933

Name
Myrtle Welch Walker
Given names
Myrtle Welch
Surname
Walker
Married name
Myrtle Welch Allen
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898
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
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916

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

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

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/
MarriageButler AllenView this family
November 1920

Birth of a daughter
#1
Laverne Allen
July 15, 1926

Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929

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
Birth of a son
#2
Clyde S Allen
July 25, 1932

Death of a sonClyde S Allen
October 26, 1932

Death January 18, 1933

Family with Butler Allen - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: November 1920
6 years
daughter
6 years
son
Butler Allen + Jenny Smith - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Marriage: January 25, 1901
21 months
step-son
Clarence Edward Allen
Birth: November 10, 1902 20 15Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States
Death: February 17, 1982Beech Grove, Marion, Indiana, United States
22 months
step-son
5 years
step-son
Francis O Allen
Birth: January 14, 1910 27 23
Death: March 1, 1992Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States

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