 Birth | September 14, 1869 |
 Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869Note: 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 8 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Jackson Shemwell — View this family December 24, 1885 (Age 16 years) |
 Birth of a son#1 | Minor Bird Shemwell October 19, 1886 (Age 17 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Mayme Lee Shemwell December 1887 (Age 18 years) |
| Death of a son | Minor Bird Shemwell July 3, 1888 (Age 18 years) Cause: Flux |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Myrtle Shemwell March 1892 (Age 22 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 28 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 |
 Divorce | Jackson Shemwell — View this family October 9, 1902 (Age 33 years) |
| Consent of guardian | Jackson Shemwell — View this family Consent of guardian Note: Lucian Miller |
| Civil marriage | Edward E Bigham — View this family April 3, 1904 (Age 34 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John Humphrey Parker — Mayme Lee Shemwell — View this family September 26, 1907 (Age 38 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Lucille Maria “Lucy” Parker June 30, 1908 (Age 38 years) |
 Census | April 15, 1910 (Age 40 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | Marshall Vance Parker February 14, 1913 (Age 43 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 46 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Marriage of a child | William W Plum — Mayme Lee Shemwell — View this family Type: Religious marriage July 5, 1918 (Age 48 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 47 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 48 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 | January 13, 1920 (Age 50 years) |
 Death | March 20, 1921 (Age 51 years) |
 Burial | March 21, 1921 (1 day after death) Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: IOOF Cemetery |