Josephine “Josie” GibbsAge: 73 years1866–1940
- Name
- Josephine “Josie” Gibbs
- Given names
- Josephine
- Surname
- Gibbs
- Married name
- Josephine Shemwell
- Nickname
- Josie
 Birth | December 2, 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 30 days)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 30 days)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
 Marriage | Joseph Mason Shemwell — View this family calculated 1882 (Age 15 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Genie Belle Shemwell October 5, 1883 (Age 16 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Clifton “Cliff” Shemwell November 7, 1885 (Age 18 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Ernest E Shemwell November 11, 1887 (Age 20 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 #4 | Vera Shemwell November 16, 1898 (Age 31 years) |
 Census | June 1, 1900 (Age 33 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John Richard Bryant — Genie Belle Shemwell — View this family January 18, 1904 (Age 37 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Thelma Ruth Bryant October 30, 1904 (Age 37 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Clifton “Cliff” Shemwell — Ethel Otey — View this family 1905 (Age 38 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | John Osborne Bryant April 8, 1906 (Age 39 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | Clyde Sinnott Shemwell September 30, 1906 (Age 39 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #4 | Merritt Bryant July 1, 1908 (Age 41 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #5 | Helen Shemwell December 20, 1908 (Age 42 years) |
| Census | May 6, 1910 (Age 43 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #6 | Mary Nunnley Bryant August 29, 1910 (Age 43 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Ernest E Shemwell — Lenora A Huddleston — View this family September 1, 1910 (Age 43 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #7 | Ernestine Leo Shemwell July 3, 1911 (Age 44 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #8 | Victor Murdoch Shemwell June 14, 1913 (Age 46 years) |
| 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/ |
| Marriage of a child | William Herschel Huie — Vera Shemwell — View this family estimated 1920 (Age 53 years) |
| Census | January 7, 1920 (Age 53 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #9 | William Herschel Huie Jr. August 17, 1921 (Age 54 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #10 | Joe Richard Bryant March 15, 1925 (Age 58 years) |
| Death of a husband | Joseph Mason Shemwell May 9, 1925 (Age 58 years) Cause: Suicide |
| Death of a daughter | Vera Shemwell December 29, 1925 (Age 59 years) |
| 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 |
| Census | April 25, 1930 (Age 63 years) |
| Death of a grandson | John Osborne Bryant November 11, 1935 (Age 68 years) |
| Census | April 4, 1940 (Age 73 years) |
 Death | November 15, 1940 (Age 73 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Owen's Chapel Cemetery |
| Family with Joseph Mason Shemwell |
| husband |
Joseph Mason Shemwell Birth: July 17, 1859 59 28 — Kentucky, United States Death: May 9, 1925 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
| herself |
Josephine “Josie” Gibbs Birth: December 2, 1866 — Tennessee, United States Death: November 15, 1940 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
|
Marriage: calculated 1882 — |
|
|
21 months daughter |
Genie Belle Shemwell Birth: October 5, 1883 24 16 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States Death: July 1, 1983 — Harris, Texas, United States |
|
2 years son |
Clifton “Cliff” Shemwell Birth: November 7, 1885 26 18 — Kentucky, United States Death: February 7, 1974 — Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States |
|
2 years son |
Ernest E Shemwell Birth: November 11, 1887 28 20 — Kentucky, United States Death: March 23, 1950 — New York, United States |
|
11 years daughter |
Vera Shemwell Birth: November 16, 1898 39 31 — McCracken, Kentucky, United States Death: December 29, 1925 — Caddo, Louisiana, United States |
No family available
| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Joseph Mason Shemwell - Household
Massac McCracken Ky
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Joseph Mason Shemwell - Household
McCracken, Ky
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Joseph Mason Shemwell - Household
Clinton Road Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky
Joseph is listed as "James" and Thomas Allen is T H. ? -b | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - Josephine “Josie” Gibbs - Household
Clinton Road Florence Station, McCracken, Kentucky
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1940 United States - Census transcript - Josephine “Josie” Gibbs - Household
McCracken, Ky
|