The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	1872
Marriage	John Cowan — View this family unknown
Historical Event	Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 6 years) Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 26 years) Cuba 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 (Age 44 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 45 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 46 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	1922 (Age 50 years)

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Family with John Cowan - View this family

husband	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Cora Askew Family with spouse Sally Gay Family with spouse Virginia Jones John Cowan Birth: July 5, 1853 28 23 — Buncombe, North Carolina, United States Death: January 30, 1923 — Bowie, Texas, United States
herself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse John Cowan Cora Askew Birth: 1872 Death: 1922
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John Cowan + Sally Gay - View this family

husband	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Cora Askew Family with spouse Sally Gay Family with spouse Virginia Jones John Cowan Birth: July 5, 1853 28 23 — Buncombe, North Carolina, United States Death: January 30, 1923 — Bowie, Texas, United States
husband’s wife	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse John Cowan Sally Gay Death:
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John Cowan + Virginia Jones - View this family

husband	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Cora Askew Family with spouse Sally Gay Family with spouse Virginia Jones John Cowan Birth: July 5, 1853 28 23 — Buncombe, North Carolina, United States Death: January 30, 1923 — Bowie, Texas, United States
husband’s wife	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse John Cowan Virginia Jones Death:
	Marriage: —