Priscilla A DareAge: 88 years1866–1955
- Name
- Priscilla A Dare
- Given names
- Priscilla A
- Surname
- Dare
 Birth | July 1866 60 29 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 6 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 |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 6 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
 Death of a father | Richard Snowden Dare July 6, 1868 (Age 2 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Caroline Virginia “Carrie” Dare September 1868 (Age 2 years) |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 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 |
 Census | August 18, 1870 (Age 4 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Census | June 9, 1880 (Age 13 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 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 8, 1900 (Age 33 years) |
| Death of a mother | Caroline Henrietta “Carrie” Shemwell April 27, 1914 (Age 47 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 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 50 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 51 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 6, 1920 (Age 53 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 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 |
| Census | April 11, 1930 (Age 63 years) |
| Death of a sister | Caroline Virginia “Carrie” Dare January 20, 1936 (Age 69 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 75 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 |
| Death of a sister | Elizabeth Snowden Ann Dare September 23, 1946 (Age 80 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 83 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 |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 79 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 | March 14, 1955 (Age 88 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mt. Olivet Cemetery |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Richard Snowden Dare Birth: November 16, 1805 — Dares Landing, Calvert, Maryland, United States Death: July 6, 1868 — Dares Landing, Calvert, Maryland, United States |
| mother |
Caroline Henrietta “Carrie” Shemwell Birth: April 1, 1837 52 43 — Chaptico, St. Mary's, Maryland, United States Death: April 27, 1914 — Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
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Marriage: December 17, 1861 — St. Mary's, Maryland, United States |
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9 months elder sister |
Elizabeth Snowden Ann Dare Birth: September 13, 1862 56 25 — Dares Landing, Calvert, Maryland, United States Death: September 23, 1946 — Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
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4 years herself |
Priscilla A Dare Birth: July 1866 60 29 — Maryland, United States Death: March 14, 1955 |
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2 years younger sister |
Caroline Virginia “Carrie” Dare Birth: September 1868 62 31 — Maryland, United States Death: January 20, 1936 — Guilford, Howard, Maryland, United States |
Priscilla A Dare has 19 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (19)
Parents James Harvey Griffin + Elizabeth Julianna Shemwell
Parents George Washington Dowell Sr. + Mary Eliza Shemwell
Parents Rev Job Wesley Lambeth + Jane Shemwell
Parents Joshua Marsden Grandin + Ann Dove Shemwell
Parents John Wesley Shemwell + Sallie Eliza Christiana Freeland
| Census | 1870 United States - Census transcript - Caroline Henrietta “Carrie” Shemwell - Household
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - Caroline Henrietta “Carrie” Shemwell - Household
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Caroline Henrietta “Carrie” Shemwell - Household
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Caroline Virginia “Carrie” Dare - Household
2433 St. Paul Street Baltimore, Maryland
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| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - Caroline Virginia “Carrie” Dare - Household
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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