The Shemwell Family

Lucy Anne CritcherAge: 75 years1860–1935

Name
Lucy Anne Critcher
Given names
Lucy Anne
Surname
Critcher
Married name
Lucy Anne Greene
Birth October 8, 1860
Historical Event
American Civil War
between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 5 months)

Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Historical Event
The Alaska Purchase
1867 (Age 6 years)
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 6 years)
Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306
Historical Event
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 (Age 8 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
MarriageHiram Greene — View this family
July 15, 1877 (Age 16 years)

Birth of a son
#1
Francis Marion Greene
July 7, 1878 (Age 17 years)
Historical Event
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
1878 (Age 17 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 daughter
#2
Emma Augusta “Gussie” Greene
February 21, 1880 (Age 19 years)
Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 37 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 grandson
#1
Ross H Hodges
September 2, 1898 (Age 37 years)
Death of a grandsonRoss H Hodges
November 22, 1912 (Age 52 years)
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 55 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 56 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 57 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/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 68 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 husbandHiram Greene
November 5, 1929 (Age 69 years)
Burial of a husbandHiram Greene
November 8, 1929 (Age 69 years)
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Chinqupin Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
Death October 9, 1935 (Age 75 years)
Burial October 11, 1935 (2 days after death)
Family with Hiram Greene - View this family
husband
Hiram Greene
Birth: July 15, 1855 30 29 — Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: November 5, 1929 — Sullivan, Tennessee, United States
herself
Lucy Anne Critcher
Birth: October 8, 1860 — Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States
Death: October 9, 1935 — Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: July 15, 1877 —
1 year
son
Francis Marion Greene
Birth: July 7, 1878 22 17 — North Carolina, United States
Death: October 27, 1962 — Macomb, Michigan, United States
20 months
daughter
Emma Augusta “Gussie” Greene
Birth: February 21, 1880 24 19 — North Carolina, United States
Death: December 13, 1957 — Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States