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Rev. Simeon Eddy Neill “Neill” AcuffAge: 66 years18771943

Name
Rev. Simeon Eddy Neill “Neill” Acuff
Name prefix
Rev.
Given names
Simeon Eddy Neill
Surname
Acuff
Nickname
Neill
Birth April 16, 1877 30 27
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 8 months)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Death of a paternal grandmotherSusan T Strange
April 8, 1882 (Age 4 years)

Death of a paternal grandfatherRev. Simeon Acuff
May 6, 1893 (Age 16 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 20 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
MarriageIda Florence CarrView this family
September 25, 1898 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Roy Claxton Acuff
September 15, 1903 (Age 26 years)
Death of a motherNancy Ellen Clapp
January 17, 1908 (Age 30 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 38 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 39 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 40 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 52 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 fatherCoram Acuff
January 30, 1931 (Age 53 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 64 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 April 29, 1943 (Age 66 years)
Family with parents - View this family
father
Coram Acuff
Birth: August 23, 1846 28 30Grainger, Tennessee, United States
Death: January 30, 1931Maynardville, Union, Tennessee, United States
mother
Nancy Ellen Clapp
Birth: October 23, 1849Union, Tennessee, United States
Death: January 17, 1908Union, Tennessee, United States
Marriage:
himself
Rev. Simeon Eddy Neill “Neill” Acuff
Birth: April 16, 1877 30 27Union, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 29, 1943Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
Family with Ida Florence Carr - View this family
himself
Rev. Simeon Eddy Neill “Neill” Acuff
Birth: April 16, 1877 30 27Union, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 29, 1943Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
wife
Ida Florence Carr
Birth: October 21, 1879Union, Tennessee, United States
Death: September 17, 1969Sumner, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: September 25, 1898Union, Tennessee, United States
5 years
son
Roy Claxton Acuff
Birth: September 15, 1903 26 23Maynardville, Union, Tennessee, United States
Death: November 23, 1992Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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