The Shemwell Family

James Evans Worley

James Evans WorleyAge: 63 years19021965

Name
James Evans Worley
Given names
James Evans
Surname
Worley
Birth June 8, 1902 37 31
Birth of a sisterBernice Worley
estimated 1905 (Age 2 years)
Death of a motherElizabeth Anne “Lizzie” Shemwell
July 27, 1906 (Age 4 years)
Cause: Typhoid Fever
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 7 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 13 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 14 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 15 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 17 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 27 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
Birth of a son
#1James Lewis Worley
June 18, 1931 (Age 29 years)
Census April 16, 1940 (Age 37 years)
Death of a fatherJames Anderson Worley
May 8, 1945 (Age 42 years)
Cause: Carcinoma of the Prostate
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 39 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
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 47 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 43 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 October 24, 1965 (Age 63 years)
Last change April 5, 201912:29:01

by: Barry Shemwell
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father
mother
Marriage: March 17, 1897
21 months
elder brother
Willard A Worley
Birth: 1898 33 26Crittenden, Kentucky, United States
Death: 1898Crittenden, Kentucky, United States
2 years
elder brother
Samuel Myrl Worley
Birth: January 18, 1900 35 28Hurricane, Tolu, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States
Death: December 10, 1979Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
2 years
himself
James Evans WorleyJames Evans Worley
Birth: June 8, 1902 37 31Tolu, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States
Death: October 24, 1965Spokane, Washington, United States
4 years
younger sister
Bernice Worley
Birth: estimated 1905 40 33Kentucky, United States
Death:
Family with Mildred Carolyn Hagen - View this family
himself
James Evans WorleyJames Evans Worley
Birth: June 8, 1902 37 31Tolu, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States
Death: October 24, 1965Spokane, Washington, United States
wife
son
James Lewis Worley
Birth: June 18, 1931 29 25Rantoul, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Death: January 15, 2021San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
son
Private
daughter
Private
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wife’s husband
Private
wife

James Evans Worley has 7 first cousins recorded