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Laura Pauline CarperAge: 32 years19101943

Name
Laura Pauline Carper
Given names
Laura Pauline
Surname
Carper
Married name
Laura Pauline Wood
Birth November 17, 1910 21 17
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 5 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 6 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 7 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 daughter
#1
Etta M Wood
October 28, 1929 (Age 18 years)
Death of a daughterEtta M Wood
October 28, 1929 (Age 18 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 18 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
#2
William Evert Wood
November 16, 1934 (Age 23 years)
Death of a sonWilliam Evert Wood
November 27, 1934 (Age 24 years)
Census April 10, 1940 (Age 29 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 31 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 January 1, 1943 (Age 32 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ford Cemetery
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Laura Pauline Carper
Birth: November 17, 1910 21 17Kentucky, United States
Death: January 1, 1943Marshall, Kentucky, United States
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husband
James Josiah Wood
Birth: July 22, 1908 20 17Marshall, Kentucky, United States
Death: February 26, 1991Marshall, Kentucky, United States
herself
Laura Pauline Carper
Birth: November 17, 1910 21 17Kentucky, United States
Death: January 1, 1943Marshall, Kentucky, United States
daughter
Etta M Wood
Birth: October 28, 1929 21 18Marshall, Kentucky, United States
Death: October 28, 1929Marshall, Kentucky, United States
5 years
son
William Evert Wood
Birth: November 16, 1934 26 23Marshall, Kentucky, United States
Death: November 27, 1934Marshall, Kentucky, United States
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