 Birth | August 24, 1851 22 19 |
 Birth of a sister | Adelle Ponton December 4, 1852 (Age 15 months) |
| Birth of a brother | Joseph Ponton June 24, 1858 (Age 6 years) |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 5 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Death of a brother | Joseph Ponton before 1860 (Age 8 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Matilda M Ponton April 30, 1860 (Age 8 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Francis Ponton November 18, 1861 (Age 10 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Marie Ponton July 5, 1863 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a sister | Marie Ponton February 25, 1864 (Age 12 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Rosalie “Rose” Ponton January 27, 1865 (Age 13 years) |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 9 years)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 |
| Death of a brother | Francis Ponton September 2, 1866 (Age 15 years) |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 15 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 15 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Birth of a brother | Henry Aaron Ponton March 8, 1868 (Age 16 years) |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 17 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 |
| Birth of a sister | Marie Anastasia Ponton March 13, 1870 (Age 18 years) |
| Death of a father | Francois Louis Ponton March 7, 1871 (Age 19 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | Pvt Napoleon Renville — Adelle Selfridge Rainville — View this family July 3, 1872 (Age 20 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Jennie Adelle Renville May 21, 1873 (Age 21 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Oregina Ida Renville about 1875 (Age 23 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 26 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 46 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 of a mother | Adelle Selfridge Rainville December 12, 1898 (Age 47 years) |
| Death of a half-sister | Oregina Ida Renville before 1900 (Age 48 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 64 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 65 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 66 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/ |
| Death of a sister | Marie Anastasia Ponton March 18, 1927 (Age 75 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 78 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 sister | Adelle Ponton September 19, 1944 (Age 93 years) Cause: Pneumonia |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 90 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 |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 98 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 half-sister | Jennie Adelle Renville March 4, 1958 (Age 106 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 94 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 | unknown |