The Shemwell Family

Leonard Edward “Ed” StoneAge: 86 years19152002

Name
Leonard Edward “Ed” Stone
Given names
Leonard Edward
Surname
Stone
Nickname
Ed
Birth June 7, 1915
Military service
WW II

Agency: Army
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 6 months)

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 18 months)

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 2 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 14 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 26 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 34 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
Birth of a son
#1
Phillip Wayne Stone
April 18, 1964 (Age 48 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 30 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 of a wifePhyllis Ann Shemwell
July 20, 2000 (Age 85 years)
Burial of a wifePhyllis Ann Shemwell
July 23, 2000 (Age 85 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Peninsula Cemetery
Death April 11, 2002 (Age 86 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Peninsula Cemetery
Family with Phyllis Ann Shemwell - View this family
himself
Leonard Edward “Ed” Stone
Birth: June 7, 1915Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, United States
Death: April 11, 2002Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States
wife
Phyllis Ann Shemwell
Birth: January 31, 1935 32 34Blackwater, Cooper, Missouri, United States
Death: July 20, 2000Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States
son
Private
son
Phillip Wayne Stone
Birth: April 18, 1964 48 29Marshall, Saline, Missouri, United States
Death: January 28, 2010Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, United States
son
Private

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