The Shemwell Family

Elvira Birdie Trafton1890

Name
Elvira Birdie Trafton
Given names
Elvira Birdie
Surname
Trafton
Birth 1890 40

Birth of a brotherOron Trafton
October 28, 1890

Birth of a brotherVincent Trafton
October 3, 1893 (Age 3 years)

Birth of a sisterBessie Trafton
1897 (Age 7 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 8 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 paternal grandmotherNancy Womack
September 26, 1913 (Age 23 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 26 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 27 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 28 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 fatherRobert Allen Trafton
January 18, 1928 (Age 38 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 39 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 51 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 60 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
Death of a brotherOron Trafton
September 15, 1973 (Age 83 years)
Burial of a brotherOron Trafton
September 15, 1973 (Age 83 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Hopewell Cemetery
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 56 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
Marriage:
elder sister
8 years
elder brother
3 years
elder sister
4 years
herself
10 months
brother
3 years
younger brother
4 years
younger sister
Father’s family with Lenora Anne Scott Gilbert - View this family
father
step-mother
Marriage: October 9, 1867Gonzales, Texas, United States
2 years
half-sister
13 months
half-sister
1 year
half-brother
2 years
half-sister
6 years
half-brother
2 months
half-brother
2 years
half-sister

Elvira Birdie Trafton has 32 first cousins recorded