Mattie Penelope BrandonAge: 55 years1865–1920
- Name
- Mattie Penelope Brandon
- Given names
- Mattie Penelope
- Surname
- Brandon
- Married name
- Mattie Penelope Dyer
 Birth | June 5, 1865 |
 Marriage | Rufus King Dyer — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 18 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 18 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 |
| 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 |
 Birth of a son#1 | Omega Brandon Dyer February 20, 1902 (Age 36 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 50 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 51 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 52 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 | September 10, 1920 (Age 55 years) |
| Family with Rufus King Dyer |
| husband |
Rufus King Dyer Birth: February 20, 1847 Death: July 20, 1924 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
| herself |
Mattie Penelope Brandon Birth: June 5, 1865 Death: September 10, 1920 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| son |
Omega Brandon Dyer Birth: February 20, 1902 55 36 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: May 29, 1987 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |