The Shemwell Family

Lucy Jane WallaceAge: 87 years18661954

Name
Lucy Jane Wallace
Given names
Lucy Jane
Surname
Wallace
Married name
Lucy Jane Dennis
Birth September 12, 1866 28 20
Birth of a siblingWallace
1867 (Age 3 months)

Death of a siblingWallace
1867 (Age 3 months)

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 3 months)
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 3 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Birth of a sisterFannie Wallace
March 27, 1869 (Age 2 years)
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 2 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 brotherSanford Laney “Lannie” Wallace
1871 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a brotherDudley Monroe Wallace
1873 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a brotherJoshua “Commander” Wallace
March 15, 1875 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a brotherThomas Yateman Wallace
October 1877 (Age 11 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 11 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
MarriagePickney Milburn DennisView this family
1880 (Age 13 years)
Birth of a sisterDora Wallace
April 1880 (Age 13 years)
Birth of a sisterMattie Bell Wallace
April 15, 1882 (Age 15 years)
Birth of a sisterMannie Wallace
1882 (Age 15 years)
Birth of a brotherBerry Wallace Jr.
October 20, 1889 (Age 23 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
Death of a paternal grandfatherAxium Green “A G” Wallace
April 29, 1904 (Age 37 years)
Death of a motherRebecca Susan Whitehurst
December 1, 1915 (Age 49 years)
Address: Center Point Com.
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 49 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 50 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 51 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 fatherLittleberry “Berry” Wallace
February 8, 1920 (Age 53 years)
Cause: Influenza
Death of a brotherMartin VanBuren Wallace
April 23, 1920 (Age 53 years)
Cause: Typhoid Fever
Death of a sisterSarah Floyd “Sallie” Wallace
August 13, 1923 (Age 56 years)
Cause: Carsenoma of the liver
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 63 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 sisterFannie Wallace
June 2, 1931 (Age 64 years)
Cause: Acute Ascending Paralysis
Death of a sisterElizabeth “Bessie” Wallace
November 3, 1933 (Age 67 years)
Death of a husbandPickney Milburn Dennis
August 21, 1935 (Age 68 years)
Death of a brotherJoshua “Commander” Wallace
January 16, 1944 (Age 77 years)
Cause: Cardio Vascular renal disease
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 75 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
Death of a sisterMannie Wallace
December 31, 1946 (Age 80 years)
Cause: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Death of a brotherSanford Laney “Lannie” Wallace
1947 (Age 80 years)
Cause: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Death of a brotherDudley Monroe Wallace
1949 (Age 82 years)
Cause: Cardio Renal Vascular disease
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 83 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 79 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 March 25, 1954 (Age 87 years)
Cause of death: Cerebral Hemmorhage
Burial March 27, 1954 (2 days after death)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Green Cemetery
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: January 20, 1859
19 months
elder brother
Martin VanBuren Wallace
Birth: August 24, 1860 22 14Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 23, 1920Bumpus Mills, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
elder sister
21 months
elder sister
4 years
younger sibling
-4 months
herself
Lucy Jane Wallace
Birth: September 12, 1866 28 20Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 25, 1954Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
younger sister
Fannie Wallace
Birth: March 27, 1869 31 23Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: June 2, 1931Bumpus Mills, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
younger brother
Sanford Laney “Lannie” Wallace
Birth: 1871 32 25Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: 1947Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
younger brother
Dudley Monroe Wallace
Birth: 1873 34 27Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: 1949Stewart, Tennessee, United States
2 years
younger brother
Joshua “Commander” Wallace
Birth: March 15, 1875 37 29Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: January 16, 1944Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
younger brother
Thomas Yateman Wallace
Birth: October 1877 39 31Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: July 18, 1960Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States
3 years
younger sister
Dora Wallace
Birth: April 1880 42 34Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death:
2 years
younger sister
Mattie Bell Wallace
Birth: April 15, 1882 44 36Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: October 24, 1962Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
9 months
younger sister
Mannie Wallace
Birth: 1882 43 36Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: December 31, 1946Middletown, Butler, Ohio, United States
8 years
younger brother
Berry Wallace Jr.
Birth: October 20, 1889 51 43Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: February 20, 1974Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Family with Pickney Milburn Dennis - View this family
husband
Pickney Milburn Dennis
Birth: June 3, 1856Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 21, 1935Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
herself
Lucy Jane Wallace
Birth: September 12, 1866 28 20Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 25, 1954Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: 1880Stewart, Tennessee, United States

Note
Married Pickney Milburn Dennis in 1880 in Stewart, Tennessee, United States He was born June 3, 1856 in Stewart Co., TN They are buried in the Green Cemetery, Stewart Co, TN.