The Shemwell Family

Sarah Floyd “Sallie” WallaceAge: 60 years18631923

Name
Sarah Floyd “Sallie” Wallace
Given names
Sarah Floyd
Surname
Wallace
Married name
Sarah Floyd Williams
Nickname
Sallie
Birth March 28, 1863 25 17
MarriageElisha D WilliamsView this family
unknown

Birth of a sisterElizabeth “Bessie” Wallace
1864 (Age 9 months)
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865

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 sisterLucy Jane Wallace
September 12, 1866 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a siblingWallace
1867 (Age 3 years)

Death of a siblingWallace
1867 (Age 3 years)

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 3 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 3 years)
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 5 years)
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 5 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 7 years)
Birth of a brotherDudley Monroe Wallace
1873 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a brotherJoshua “Commander” Wallace
March 15, 1875 (Age 11 years)
Birth of a brotherThomas Yateman Wallace
October 1877 (Age 14 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 14 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 sisterDora Wallace
April 1880 (Age 17 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Mary Elizabeth Williams
July 16, 1880 (Age 17 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Franklin Monroe Williams
1882 (Age 18 years)

Birth of a sisterMattie Bell Wallace
April 15, 1882 (Age 19 years)
Birth of a sisterMannie Wallace
1882 (Age 18 years)
Birth of a brotherBerry Wallace Jr.
October 20, 1889 (Age 26 years)
Birth of a son
#3
James Elzie Williams
May 9, 1890 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#4
Lannie S Williams
1897 (Age 33 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 35 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 41 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#1
Sallie Irene Page
July 27, 1905 (Age 42 years)

Death of a motherRebecca Susan Whitehurst
December 1, 1915 (Age 52 years)
Address: Center Point Com.
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 52 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 53 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 54 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 56 years)
Cause: Influenza
Death of a brotherMartin VanBuren Wallace
April 23, 1920 (Age 57 years)
Cause: Typhoid Fever
Death August 13, 1923 (Age 60 years)
Cause of death: Carsenoma of the liver
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Williams 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
herself
21 months
younger sister
4 years
younger sibling
-4 months
younger sister
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 Elisha D Williams - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage:
daughter
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Birth: July 16, 1880 21 17Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: May 5, 1948Dover, Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
son
8 years
son
James Elzie Williams
Birth: May 9, 1890 31 27Tennessee, United States
Death: December 22, 1945Webster, Kentucky, United States
8 years
son

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Note
buried in Willliams Cemetery, District 5 Stewart, Tennessee, United States (grave may have been moved because of Ft. Campbell) Married to Elisha D. Williams in 1876 in Dover, Stewart Co., Tn. He died December 25, 1926 in Stewart Co., TN.