The Shemwell Family

Millie Bartlett WartmanAge: 71 years18671939

Name
Millie Bartlett Wartman
Given names
Millie Bartlett
Surname
Wartman
Married name
Millie Bartlett Shemwell
Birth July 31, 1867 44
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 (Age 17 months)

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 (Age 10 years)

Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever
Religious marriageDr. Joseph Freeland ShemwellView this family
April 20, 1897 (Age 29 years)

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 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
Census June 1, 1900 (Age 32 years)
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 42 years)
Travel Record
Passenger List
August 14, 1913 (Age 46 years)

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 50 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/
Census January 1, 1920 (Age 52 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 62 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
Travel Record
Travel Record
October 13, 1935 (Age 68 years)
Death May 26, 1939 (Age 71 years)
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elder sister
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herself
Millie Bartlett Wartman
Birth: July 31, 1867 44Maryland, United States
Death: May 26, 1939Baltimore City, Maryland, United States
Family with Dr. Joseph Freeland Shemwell - View this family
husband
Dr. Joseph Freeland Shemwell
Birth: May 25, 1864 32 21Prince Frederick, Calvert, Maryland, United States
Death: June 25, 1939
herself
Millie Bartlett Wartman
Birth: July 31, 1867 44Maryland, United States
Death: May 26, 1939Baltimore City, Maryland, United States
Marriage: April 20, 1897

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