The Shemwell Family

Alethea “Letha” BriteAge: 31 years19071939

Name
Alethea “Letha” Brite
Given names
Alethea
Surname
Brite
Married name
Alethea Hager
Nickname
Letha
Birth December 17, 1907
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 8 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 9 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 10 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 son
#1
William Austin Hager
April 12, 1929 (Age 21 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 21 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 5, 1930 (Age 22 years)
Birth of a son
#2
Robert Gene “Bobby” Hager
calculated 1932 (Age 24 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Mary Maxine Hager
March 20, 1933 (Age 25 years)
Death June 7, 1939 (Age 31 years)
Cause of death: Septicemia Abortion - Induced
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Hickman City Cemetery
Family with William Max Hager - View this family
husband
William Max Hager
Birth: March 3, 1892 21Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 2, 1949Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States
herself
son
William Austin Hager
Birth: April 12, 1929 37 21Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 19, 2019Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States
4 years
son
Robert Gene “Bobby” Hager
Birth: calculated 1932 39 24Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States
Death: August 27, 2015
15 months
daughter
Mary Maxine Hager
Birth: March 20, 1933 41 25Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States
Death: January 4, 2012Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
son
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