Edgar DeWitt EllisAge: 62 years1865–1928
- Name
- Edgar DeWitt Ellis
- Given names
- Edgar DeWitt
- Surname
- Ellis
![]() | September 15, 1865 40 30 |
![]() | Willie Ellis 1867 (Age 15 months) |
![]() | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 15 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 |
![]() | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 15 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
![]() | Clara Vashti Ellis December 27, 1869 (Age 4 years) |
![]() | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 3 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 |
![]() | June 1, 1870 (Age 4 years) |
![]() | Lucy C Downer after 1870 (Age 4 years) |
![]() | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 12 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
![]() | June 7, 1880 (Age 14 years) |
![]() | Sarah “Sallie” Balck — View this family about 1890 (Age 24 years) |
![]() #1 | Robbie Ellis April 29, 1894 (Age 28 years) |
![]() #2 | Carey Ellis August 18, 1895 (Age 29 years) |
![]() | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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 |
![]() | June 5, 1900 (Age 34 years) |
![]() | April 19, 1910 (Age 44 years) |
![]() #1 | Charles Henry Schwam Jr. September 16, 1915 (Age 50 years) |
![]() | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 50 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
![]() | Sarah “Sallie” Balck April 5, 1917 (Age 51 years) |
![]() | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 51 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 |
![]() | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 52 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/ |
![]() | John Thaddeus Ellis October 16, 1919 (Age 54 years) |
![]() | John Thaddeus Ellis October 17, 1919 (Age 54 years) Cemetery: Forest Hill Cemetery |
![]() | January 13, 1920 (Age 54 years) |
![]() | September 10, 1928 (Age 62 years) |
![]() | Cemetery: Pleasant Hill Cemetery |
![]() | December 22, 2017 – 17:31:09 by: Barry Shemwell |