The Shemwell Family

Birth February 1870 32 34
Birth of a half-brotherRichard “Dick” Thomas
April 11, 1870 (Age 2 months)
Death of a fatherAndrew Cook
April 1870 (Age 2 months)
Census July 29, 1870 (Age 5 months)
Marriage of a parentAndrew Thomas — Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell — View this family
before 1873 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a half-sisterAmanda Ellen Thomas
February 29, 1876 (Age 6 years)
Marriage of a parentCornelius Cornine — Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell — View this family
September 13, 1878 (Age 8 years)
Historical Event 1878 (Age 7 years)
Census June 1, 1880 (Age 10 years)
Death of a half-sisterNancy Jane Cook
before August 1880 (Age 10 years)
MarriageJames H Brown — View this family
August 29, 1887 (Age 17 years)
Divorce filedJames H Brown — View this family
September 8, 1894 (Age 24 years)
Historical Event between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 28 years)
Death of a half-sisterAmanda Ellen Thomas
August 22, 1915 (Age 45 years)
Historical Event 1916 (Age 45 years)
Historical Event between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 46 years)
Historical Event 1918 (Age 47 years)
Death of a motherMary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell
March 31, 1920 (Age 50 years)
Historical Event October 1929 (Age 59 years)
Death of a half-brotherEverett Fielding Cook
April 16, 1931 (Age 61 years)
Death of a sisterGeorgeann Isabelle “Belle” Cook
December 27, 1941 (Age 71 years)
Historical Event between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 71 years)
Death of a half-brotherRichard “Dick” Thomas
September 6, 1949 (Age 79 years)
Burial of a half-brotherRichard “Dick” Thomas
September 6, 1949 (Age 79 years)
Historical Event between 1950 and 1953 (Age 79 years)
Death of a half-brotherJohn William “J.W.” Cook
December 2, 1954 (Age 84 years)
Historical Event between 1946 and 1975 (Age 75 years)
Deathunknown
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Census View	1870 United States - Census transcript - Nancy Jane Shemwell - Household Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri Name Relation Age Sex Color Occupation RE PE Birthplace FFB MFB Born Mar School Read Write Infirm Cit Dis Cook, Jane head 34 F W Keeping House MO Cook, Milton son 15 M W Works On Farm MO Cook, Nancy daughter 13 F W MO Cook, William N son 11 M W MO Cook, Fielding E son 9 M W MO Cook, Georgeann J daughter 4 F W MO Cook, Sarah E daughter 4m F W MO Feb
Census	Mary Margaret is listed as Sarah E Cook. No Mary in the 1870 Census and no Sarah in 1880.. They should have been in both, then Sarah disappears. Jane says in the 1900 Census she has 8 children born 6 living.
Census View	1880 United States - Census transcript - Nancy Jane Shemwell - Household Pilot Grove, Cooper, MO Name Race Sex Age Bmth Relation MC YrsM Occupation Health MnsU Edu Eng? BP FBP MBP Jane Cornine W F 40 head M - Keeps house MO KY KY William N. Cook W M 20 son S - Works out by the day MO IN MO Everett H. Cook W M 17 son S - Works out by the day MO IN MO Georgeann I. Cook W F 14 daughter S - At Home MO IN MO Mary M. Cook W M 11 son S - At Home MO IN MO Richard Thomas W M 7 son S - At Home MO TN MO Amanda E. Thomas W F 5 daughter S - At Home MO TN MO Notes: parted from her husband
Divorce filed	He states that his wife left him on September 1 1889 GrantedOctober 1895?

Family with parents
father Parents … Cook … …	Andrew Cook 1838–1870
mother Parents Thomas Shemwell Nancy Bone	Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell 1835–1920
elder sister Family John G Griffin William G Griffin	Georgeann Isabelle “Belle” Cook 1865–1941
herself Family James H Brown	Mary Margaret Cook 1870–
Mother’s family with Fielding Cook
uncle Parents … Cook … …	Fielding Cook 1835–1864
mother Parents Thomas Shemwell Nancy Bone	Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell 1835–1920
half-brother Family Margaret Cornine J T Cook Cornelius Cornine “C C” Cook John Richard Cook Mary Ellen “Marie” Cook Jerry Cook	James Thomas Milton Cook 1854–
half-sister Family Cornelius C Cornine Jr.	Nancy Jane Cook 1857–1880
half-brother Family Mary Emma Cornine Claude M Cook Irene A Cook Walter Herbert Cook	John William “J.W.” Cook 1860–1954
half-brother Family Sarah Margaret Maude “Maggie” Cornine Birdie Ellen Cook Edward Everett Cook Albert Cook I. Dovie Cook Isaiah McKinley Cook	Everett Fielding Cook 1862–1931
Mother’s family with Andrew Thomas
step-father Parents (unknown)	Andrew Thomas 1838–
mother Parents Thomas Shemwell Nancy Bone	Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell 1835–1920
half-brother Family Mary Catherine Gross Leo Martin Thomas Mary Geneva “Mamie” Russell Goldie Thomas Everett Guy Thomas Marjorie Ellen Thomas	Richard “Dick” Thomas 1870–1949
half-sister Family George Washington Hopkins Blanch M Hopkins Ruth Viola Hopkins Mae Mildred Hopkins Robert Michael Hopkins	Amanda Ellen Thomas 1876–1915
Mother’s family with Cornelius Cornine
step-father Parents (unknown)	Cornelius Cornine 1804–1883
mother Parents Thomas Shemwell Nancy Bone	Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell 1835–1920
Family with James H Brown
ex-husband Parents (unknown)	James H Brown 1867–
herself Parents Andrew Cook Mary Jane “Nancy” Shemwell	Mary Margaret Cook 1870–