The Shemwell Family

Events of close relatives Historical facts
Birth	September 25, 1869 19 20 Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States
Historical Event	Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 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
Death of a maternal grandfather	William Luther “Buck” Gilliam about 1871 (Age 15 months) Thomasville, Oregon, Missouri, United States
Birth of a sister	Rose Althea Fields April 8, 1876 (Age 6 years) Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States
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
Birth of a sister	Mary Neil Fields May 29, 1882 (Age 12 years) Wingo, Graves, Kentucky, United States
Birth of a sister	Capitola Georgia Fields November 24, 1884 (Age 15 years)
Death of a mother	Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam 1891 (Age 21 years) Fredonia, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States
Historical Event	Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 28 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
Marriage	Martha Jordan Roach — View this family January 29, 1904 (Age 34 years)
Death of a maternal grandmother	Sarah A Cooley about 1905 (Age 35 years) Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States
Birth of a daughter #1	Nanny Hazel Fields April 23, 1907 (Age 37 years) Fulton, Kentucky, United States
Death of a paternal grandfather	Robert Nelson Pleasant Fields October 22, 1914 (Age 45 years) Graves, Kentucky, United States
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
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/
Death of a father	Allen Dodd Fields April 23, 1922 (Age 52 years) Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky, United States
Historical Event	The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 60 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
Historical Event	World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 72 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
Historical Event	Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 76 years) Vietnam 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 15, 1948 (Age 79 years) Cayce, Fulton, Kentucky, United States

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father	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam Robert Arthur Fields Rose Althea Fields Mary Neil Fields Capitola Georgia Fields Allen Dodd Fields Birth: October 28, 1849 27 22 — Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: April 23, 1922 — Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky, United States
mother	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Allen Dodd Fields Robert Arthur Fields Rose Althea Fields Mary Neil Fields Capitola Georgia Fields Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam Birth: January 11, 1849 37 27 — Weakley, Tennessee, United States Death: 1891 — Fredonia, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States
	Marriage: 1868 —
21 months himself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Martha Jordan Roach Nanny Hazel Fields Robert Arthur Fields Birth: September 25, 1869 19 20 — Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States Death: December 15, 1948 — Cayce, Fulton, Kentucky, United States
7 years younger sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Louis Erasmus Jones Capitola Jones Nannie Bell Jones Louis Edwin Jones James Oscar Jones Rose Althea Fields Birth: April 8, 1876 26 27 — Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States Death: November 2, 1962 — Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States
6 years younger sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse James Claude Stanley James Clyde Stanley Margaret Elizabeth Stanley Mary Neale Stanley Allen Dodd Stanley Mary Neil Fields Birth: May 29, 1882 32 33 — Wingo, Graves, Kentucky, United States Death: December 28, 1958 — Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States
3 years younger sister	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Capitola Georgia Fields Birth: November 24, 1884 35 35 Death:

Family with Martha Jordan Roach - View this family

himself	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Martha Jordan Roach Nanny Hazel Fields Robert Arthur Fields Birth: September 25, 1869 19 20 — Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States Death: December 15, 1948 — Cayce, Fulton, Kentucky, United States
wife	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Robert Arthur Fields Nanny Hazel Fields Martha Jordan Roach Birth: January 3, 1876 Death: September 29, 1951
	Marriage: January 29, 1904 —
3 years daughter	Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Pedigree Tree Family with spouse Roy D Taylor Nanny Hazel Fields Birth: April 23, 1907 37 31 — Fulton, Kentucky, United States Death: July 30, 2000 — Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States

Family with parents
father Parents Robert Nelson Pleasant Fields Permelia A Brand	Allen Dodd Fields 1849–1922
mother Parents William Luther “Buck” Gilliam Sarah A Cooley	Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam 1849–1891
himself Family Martha Jordan Roach Nanny Hazel Fields	Robert Arthur Fields 1869–1948
younger sister Family Louis Erasmus Jones Capitola Jones Nannie Bell Jones Louis Edwin Jones James Oscar Jones	Rose Althea Fields 1876–1962
younger sister Family James Claude Stanley James Clyde Stanley Margaret Elizabeth Stanley Mary Neale Stanley Allen Dodd Stanley	Mary Neil Fields 1882–1958
younger sister Family (none)	Capitola Georgia Fields 1884–
Family with Martha Jordan Roach
himself Parents Allen Dodd Fields Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam	Robert Arthur Fields 1869–1948
wife Parents (unknown)	Martha Jordan Roach 1876–1951
daughter Family Roy D Taylor Private Private	Nanny Hazel Fields 1907–2000