The Shemwell Family

Rosetta Walters

Name
Rosetta Walters
Given names
Rosetta
Surname
Walters
Married name
Rosetta Waterworth
MarriageCharles WaterworthView this family
unknown

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867
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
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869

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

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 daughter
#1Blanche Lorena Waterworth
January 29, 1888
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898
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
#2Hazel Mae Waterworth
January 14, 1901
Birth of a daughter
#3Ilene Faye Waterworth
September 24, 1904
Marriage of a childNova David FrenchBlanche Lorena WaterworthView this family
February 4, 1906
Birth of a grandson
#1Charles David French
March 5, 1907
Birth of a granddaughter
#2Jewel Marie French
December 13, 1908
Death of a granddaughterJewel Marie French
December 8, 1910
Birth of a granddaughter
#3Nina Vivian French
August 7, 1912
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916

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

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

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 childRussell Dean ShamelHazel Mae WaterworthView this family
May 13, 1922
Birth of a grandson
#4Russell Lavern Shamel
September 11, 1925
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929

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
Marriage of a childBarrett Talmadge ShemwellIlene Faye WaterworthView this family
June 3, 1930
Birth of a grandson
#5Richard Dean Shamel
June 18, 1930
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945

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
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
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975
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
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Family with Charles Waterworth - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage:
daughter
Hazel Mae Waterworth
Birth: January 14, 1901Missouri, United States
Death: September 13, 1978Lebanon, Laclede, Missouri, United States
4 years
daughter
Ilene Faye Waterworth
Birth: September 24, 1904Missouri, United States
Death: May 7, 2004Lebanon, Laclede, Missouri, United States
-17 years
daughter

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