The Shemwell Family

William Jasper Mason1854

Name
William Jasper Mason
Given names
William Jasper
Surname
Mason
Birth August 1854 30 23
MarriageEmma IView this family
unknown

Birth of a sisterMary J Mason
1856 (Age 17 months)
Birth of a brotherJohn L Mason
September 19, 1857 (Age 3 years)
Marriage of a parentQuintus Adkerson CromwellBelzada Barsheba DavisView this family
November 7, 1859 (Age 5 years)

Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 2 years)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Birth of a half-sisterSarah Elizabeth Cromwell
September 12, 1860 (Age 6 years)

Birth of a half-brotherOliver Clayton Cromwell
February 7, 1862 (Age 7 years)

Birth of a half-sisterRosa Armantha Cromwell
September 16, 1864 (Age 10 years)

Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 6 years)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Birth of a half-sisterFrancis Auridel Cromwell
January 12, 1866 (Age 11 years)

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 12 years)
Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic
1867 (Age 12 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 14 years)

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
Birth of a half-sisterAda Quint Cromwell
April 5, 1870 (Age 15 years)

Birth of a half-sisterAmanda Ella Cromwell
September 25, 1873 (Age 19 years)

Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 23 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 daughter
#1
Euila M Mason
March 1882 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#2
William O Mason
July 1890 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Ryie
September 1894 (Age 40 years)
Death of a half-sisterRosa Armantha Cromwell
April 1896 (Age 41 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 43 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
Death of a motherBelzada Barsheba Davis
July 9, 1916 (Age 61 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 61 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 62 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 63 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 half-brotherOliver Clayton Cromwell
1922 (Age 67 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 75 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
Death of a half-sisterSarah Elizabeth Cromwell
November 21, 1933 (Age 79 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 87 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 95 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 91 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
Deathunknown

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father
mother
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elder sister
2 years
himself
2 years
younger sister
21 months
younger brother
Mother’s family with Quintus Adkerson Cromwell - View this family
step-father
mother
Marriage: November 7, 1859
half-sister
half-sister
17 months
half-brother
3 years
half-sister
16 months
half-sister
4 years
half-sister
4 years
half-sister
Family with Emma I - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage:
daughter
Euila M Mason
Birth: March 1882 27 18Graves, Kentucky, United States
Death:
8 years
son
William O Mason
Birth: July 1890 35 26Graves, Kentucky, United States
Death:
4 years
daughter
Ryie
Birth: September 1894 40 31Graves, Kentucky, United States
Death:

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