Lewis Walter BoydAge: 70 years1867–1937
- Name
- Lewis Walter Boyd
- Given names
- Lewis Walter
- Surname
- Boyd
 Birth | February 2, 1867 Note: Paducah |
 Marriage | Mary Mildred Long — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: 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 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 22 months)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 |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 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 | Mamie Gertrude Boyd December 29, 1894 (Age 27 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | George Dewey Boyd November 23, 1898 (Age 31 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | James Walter Shemwell August 28, 1911 (Age 44 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | Victor Boyd Shemwell Sr. May 26, 1916 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 50 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/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 62 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 wife | Mary Mildred Long June 9, 1937 (Age 70 years) |
 Death | September 6, 1937 (Age 70 years) |
| Family with Mary Mildred Long |
| himself |
Lewis Walter Boyd Birth: February 2, 1867 — Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States Death: September 6, 1937 — Letcher, Kentucky, United States |
| wife |
Mary Mildred Long Birth: February 28, 1875 — Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States Death: June 9, 1937 |
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Marriage: — |
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| daughter |
Mamie Gertrude Boyd Birth: December 29, 1894 27 19 — Christian, Kentucky, United States Death: November 21, 1949 — Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States |
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4 years daughter |
George Dewey Boyd Birth: November 23, 1898 31 23 — Cleaton, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States Death: February 16, 1962 — Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, United States |
No family available
| Birth | Paducah |