The Shemwell Family

Birth March 12, 1884 31 27
Birth of a sisterNancy Elizabeth “Nannie” Dorton
March 11, 1886 (Age 23 months)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Osborne Dorton
August 13, 1888 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterMary T Dorton
October 18, 1890 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a sisterMaude Dorton
October 25, 1893 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a sisterIda M Dorton
October 14, 1896 (Age 12 years)
Census June 27, 1900 (Age 16 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherElizabeth W Kerley
October 17, 1900 (Age 16 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Osborne Dorton
August 17, 1901 (Age 17 years)
MarriageJames Douglas “Dug” Burnett — View this family
about 1906 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a son
#1James Martin Burnett
April 11, 1906 (Age 22 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2Ernestine Burnett
September 25, 1907 (Age 23 years)
Birth of a son
#3Joe John Burnett
February 23, 1910 (Age 25 years)
Census April 15, 1910 (Age 26 years)
Birth of a daughter
#4Mabel G Burnett
August 3, 1911 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#5Pvt. Douglas W Burnett
about 1914 (Age 29 years)
Birth of a daughter
#6Martha Rebecca “Mattie” Burnett
November 23, 1917 (Age 33 years)
Birth of a daughter
#7Hazel Alice Burnett
May 5, 1919 (Age 35 years)
Census January 14, 1920 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a daughter
#8Marjorie Rose Burnett
March 22, 1923 (Age 39 years)
Death of a fatherJoseph David Dorton
June 11, 1924 (Age 40 years)
Death of a sisterMaude Dorton
April 12, 1927 (Age 43 years)
Birth of a son
#9Quincy Thomas Burnett
November 8, 1927 (Age 43 years)
Birth of a son
#10Herbert Charles Burnett
April 3, 1929 (Age 45 years)
Death of a sisterMary T Dorton
November 25, 1929 (Age 45 years)
Census April 17, 1930 (Age 46 years)
Death of a husbandJames Douglas “Dug” Burnett
May 29, 1931 (Age 47 years)
Birth of a grandson
#1Lewis Robert Burnett
November 23, 1933 (Age 49 years)
Marriage of a childTheodore Roosevelt Tollett — Mabel G Burnett — View this family
February 2, 1935 (Age 50 years)
Death April 24, 1936 (Age 52 years)
Burial

Family with parents
father Parents (unknown)	Joseph David Dorton 1852–1924
mother Parents Samuel P “Sham” Selby Elizabeth W Kerley	Rebecca Ann Selby 1856–1961
elder brother Family (none)	James Monroe Dorton 1881–1968
elder brother Family Clara Elizabeth Ford Thomas Wesley Dorton Nellie Hedgecoth Private	Ernest Edison Dorton 1882–1950
herself Family James Douglas “Dug” Burnett James Martin Burnett Ernestine Burnett Joe John Burnett Mabel G Burnett Pvt. Douglas W Burnett Martha Rebecca “Mattie” Burnett Hazel Alice Burnett Marjorie Rose Burnett Quincy Thomas Burnett Herbert Charles Burnett	Versa Etna Dorton 1884–1936
younger sister Family (none)	Nancy Elizabeth “Nannie” Dorton 1886–1982
younger brother Family (none)	William Osborne Dorton 1888–1901
younger sister Family William Rainey Turner Private	Mary T Dorton 1890–1929
younger sister Family Claborn Floyd Wilson Sr. Claborn Floyd “Bud” Wilson Jr.	Maude Dorton 1893–1927
younger sister Family Andrew J McGuire Private	Ida M Dorton 1896–1981
Family with James Douglas “Dug” Burnett
husband Parents John Quincy Burnett Martha Ellen “Mattie” Hamby	James Douglas “Dug” Burnett 1886–1931
herself Parents Joseph David Dorton Rebecca Ann Selby	Versa Etna Dorton 1884–1936
son Family Eva Hayes Private	James Martin Burnett 1906–1984
daughter Family (none)	Ernestine Burnett 1907–1973
son Family Anna Baker Lewis Robert Burnett Private Wilma Jean Burnett Private Private Private	Joe John Burnett 1910–1950
daughter Family Theodore Roosevelt Tollett	Mabel G Burnett 1911–1978
son Family (none)	Pvt. Douglas W Burnett 1914–1943
daughter Family Frank Henry Loshbough Private Edwin Geipel	Martha Rebecca “Mattie” Burnett 1917–2007
daughter Family Virgil Cleophas “Virgie” Greene Robert Douglas Greene	Hazel Alice Burnett 1919–2002
daughter Family John W Davis Jr. Alice Kay Davis John W “Johnny” Davis	Marjorie Rose Burnett 1923–1991
son Family (none)	Quincy Thomas Burnett 1927–1942
son Family Private Private	Herbert Charles Burnett 1929–2004