The Shemwell Family

Roxie HumphreyAge: 56 years18991955

Name
Roxie Humphrey
Given names
Roxie
Surname
Humphrey
Married name
Roxie Blackerby
Birth 1899
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 17 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 18 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 19 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/
Birth of a son
#1
Jake Blackerby
May 31, 1925 (Age 26 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 30 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 42 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
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 51 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 47 years)
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 1955 (Age 56 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Hillcrest Burial Park Cemetery
Family with Clyde R Blackerby - View this family
husband
Clyde R Blackerby
Birth: April 13, 1903 27 24Jack, Texas, United States
Death: January 3, 1971Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States
herself
Roxie Humphrey
Birth: 1899Palo Pinto, Texas, United States
Death: 1955Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States
son
Private
daughter
Private
son
Jake Blackerby
Birth: May 31, 1925 22 26Polk, Texas, United States
Death: June 12, 2000Livingston, Polk, Texas, United States
Clyde R Blackerby + Private - View this family
husband
Clyde R Blackerby
Birth: April 13, 1903 27 24Jack, Texas, United States
Death: January 3, 1971Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States
husband’s wife
Private

No family available

Note
Source: Tombstone, fom Ellis County, Texas Cemetery Records by the Ellis County Genealogical Society, Waxahachie, Texas, United States 1981, page 42