 Birth | December 16, 1899 35 29 |
 Census | June 1, 1900 (Age 5 months) |
 Death of a paternal grandfather | William Alexander Parran February 14, 1902 (Age 2 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | John Wesley Shemwell March 8, 1903 (Age 3 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Elizabeth Anne Parran May 27, 1904 (Age 4 years) |
| Census | April 16, 1910 (Age 10 years) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 16 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
 Military | WW1 December 22, 1917 (Age 18 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Ann Elizabeth “Annie” Sollers February 25, 1918 (Age 18 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 17 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 18 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/ |
| Census | January 1, 1920 (Age 20 years) |
| Census | January 9, 1920 (Age 20 years) |
 Marriage | Louise Morris — View this family March 5, 1928 (Age 28 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 29 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 |
| Birth of a son #1 | William Shemwell Parran Jr. November 7, 1929 (Age 29 years) |
| Census | April 15, 1930 (Age 30 years) |
| Marriage | Grace Moffat Stuart — View this family February 3, 1937 (Age 37 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Rebecca Shemwell “Becky” Parran November 1, 1938 (Age 38 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Charles Somerset Parran July 29, 1942 (Age 42 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 41 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 |
| Census | April 15, 1950 (Age 50 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 50 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a mother | Eliza Rebecca Shemwell February 6, 1955 (Age 55 years) |
| Death of a father | William Alexander Parran Jr. January 18, 1961 (Age 61 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 46 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | May 14, 1962 (Age 62 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Saint Pauls Episcopal Church Cemetery |