The Shemwell Family

Nancy Freedona WeaksAge: 76 years18661942

Name
Nancy Freedona Weaks
Given names
Nancy Freedona
Surname
Weaks
Married name
Nancy Freedona Chadwick
Birth March 7, 1866 28 24
MarriageWilliam Thomas ChadwickView this family
unknown

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 9 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 9 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Birth of a sisterIda Lee Weaks
August 22, 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
Birth of a brotherJames Frederick “Jim” Weaks
October 6, 1875 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a sisterSally Weaks
January 5, 1878 (Age 11 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
Birth of a sisterLottie J Weaks
January 4, 1881 (Age 14 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Murray Levi Chadwick
January 20, 1888 (Age 21 years)
Death of a motherEmily Winifred Gross
April 30, 1898 (Age 32 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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
Birth of a son
#2
Walter H Chadwick
calculated 1899 (Age 32 years)
Marriage of a childMurray Levi ChadwickMamie Flora ShemwellView this family
September 20, 1908 (Age 42 years)
Birth of a grandson
#1
Murray Freeman Chadwick
August 21, 1909 (Age 43 years)
Death of a sisterLottie J Weaks
March 8, 1910 (Age 44 years)
Death of a sisterIda Lee Weaks
December 25, 1910 (Age 44 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#2
Alberta Mildred Chadwick
January 10, 1911 (Age 44 years)
Note: or 04 FEB 1912
Birth of a grandson
#3
William Thomas “Bill” Chadwick Sr.
August 27, 1913 (Age 47 years)
Birth of a grandson
#4
Edward Eugene Chadwick
September 5, 1915 (Age 49 years)
Death of a brotherMark Monroe Weaks
October 1, 1915 (Age 49 years)
Death of a fatherAllen Levi Weaks
October 27, 1915 (Age 49 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
Death of a sisterSally Weaks
February 11, 1917 (Age 50 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
#5
Imagene Bertha Chadwick
April 3, 1917 (Age 51 years)
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/
Birth of a grandson
#6
Otho Shemwell “Joe” Chadwick
February 16, 1927 (Age 60 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
Death of a grandsonMurray Freeman Chadwick
February 2, 1934 (Age 67 years)
Birth of a grandson
#7
Glen Levi Chadwick
February 4, 1938 (Age 71 years)
Census May 6, 1940 (Age 74 years)
Birth of a grandson
#8
Ronnie Hamilton Chadwick
August 10, 1940 (Age 74 years)
Death of a granddaughterImagene Bertha Chadwick
October 21, 1941 (Age 75 years)
Cause: Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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 December 27, 1942 (Age 76 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Weaks Cemetery
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: October 24, 1860Stewart, Tennessee, United States
14 months
elder brother
4 years
herself
Nancy Freedona Weaks
Birth: March 7, 1866 28 24Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: December 27, 1942Houston, Tennessee, United States
3 years
younger sister
Ida Lee Weaks
Birth: August 22, 1868 30 26Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: December 25, 1910Tennessee, United States
7 years
younger brother
2 years
younger sister
Sally Weaks
Birth: January 5, 1878 40 36Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: February 11, 1917Stewart, Tennessee, United States
3 years
younger sister
Lottie J Weaks
Birth: January 4, 1881 43 39Tennessee, United States
Death: March 8, 1910Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Family with William Thomas Chadwick - View this family
husband
William Thomas Chadwick
Birth: May 15, 1865 38 35Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 19, 1949Houston, Tennessee, United States
herself
Nancy Freedona Weaks
Birth: March 7, 1866 28 24Stewart, Tennessee, United States
Death: December 27, 1942Houston, Tennessee, United States
Marriage:
son
12 years
son
Walter H Chadwick
Birth: calculated 1899 33 32Tennessee, United States
Death:

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Census1940 United States - Census transcript - William Thomas Chadwick - Household

River Road Houston, Tennessee

NameRelationHomeV/RFarmSexRaceAgeCondAMSchEdBPResFarmOccupationIndustryVetWar
William T ChadwickheadMW74MTNFarmingFarm
Nancy F ChadwickwifeFW74MTN
Walter H ChadwicksonMW41STNFarmingFarm