The Shemwell Family

Margaret Catherine StineAge: 72 years18561928

Name
Margaret Catherine Stine
Given names
Margaret Catherine
Surname
Stine
Married name
Margaret Catherine Isenhower
Birth May 7, 1856 34 35

MarriagePhilo Elmore IsenhowerView this family
unknown

Historical Event
Influenza Epidemic
between 1857 and 1859 (Age 7 months)

Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 4 years)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 10 years)
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 10 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 12 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
Death of a motherSarah Isenhower
February 10, 1874 (Age 17 years)

Birth of a daughter
#1
Sarah Isenhower
May 15, 1875 (Age 19 years)

Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 21 years)

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
#2
Mattie Ethel Isenhower
August 14, 1884 (Age 28 years)

Birth of a daughter
#3
Vertie Stine Isenhower
September 4, 1886 (Age 30 years)

Birth of a son
#4
Berman Harold Isenhower
April 1, 1889 (Age 32 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 41 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
Death of a fatherJohn Henry Stine
October 23, 1906 (Age 50 years)

Death of a daughterVertie Stine Isenhower
July 11, 1909 (Age 53 years)

Birth of a grandson
#1
Harold Arey “Ike” Isenhower
October 4, 1910 (Age 54 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 59 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 60 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 61 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/
Birth of a granddaughter
#2
Alberta Stine “Peaches” Isenhower
June 8, 1920 (Age 64 years)
Death December 16, 1928 (Age 72 years)
Family with parents - View this family
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mother
Marriage:
herself
Family with Philo Elmore Isenhower - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage:
daughter
9 years
daughter
2 years
daughter
3 years
son
Berman Harold Isenhower
Birth: April 1, 1889 36 32Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Death: June 22, 1941Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States