The Shemwell Family

Margaret A SutherlinAge: 38 years18661904

Name
Margaret A Sutherlin
Given names
Margaret A
Surname
Sutherlin
Married name
Margaret A Simmons
Birth 1866

MarriageWilliam Samuel SimmonsView this family
unknown

Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 12 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 12 months)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 3 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
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 12 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 son
#1William Vodra Simmons
1896 (Age 30 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
Death 1904 (Age 38 years)

Last change September 21, 201713:36:14

by: Barry Shemwell
Family with William Samuel Simmons - View this family
husband
William Samuel Simmons
Birth: September 19, 1871 30Trigg, Kentucky, United States
Death: December 3, 1949Graves, Kentucky, United States
herself
Marriage:
son

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