 Birth | November 17, 1874 23 24 |
 Birth of a brother | Ollie B Sikes February 17, 1876 (Age 15 months) |
 Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 3 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 sister | Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sikes 1879 (Age 4 years) |
| Death of a brother | Torence Sikes after 1880 (Age 5 years) |
| Birth of a brother | George Alex Sikes May 20, 1881 (Age 6 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Nelson Franklin Sikes March 17, 1883 (Age 8 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Lydia Sallie Sikes April 4, 1888 (Age 13 years) |
| Birth of a brother | William Henry Sikes June 29, 1890 (Age 15 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 23 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 |
 Civil marriage | Joshua Gilbert Jones — View this family December 28, 1898 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | Ann May Jones October 1899 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | William Henry Jones May 5, 1901 (Age 26 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Elijah Lancaster October 5, 1908 (Age 33 years) Cause: Asthma |
| Death of a mother | Nancy Ann Lancaster June 7, 1911 (Age 36 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | William Howell Sikes Jr. — Laura Bell Broadway — View this family March 1912 (Age 37 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Elizabeth Clauson July 8, 1916 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 41 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 42 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 43 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/ |
| Marriage of a child | William Henry Jones — Gertrude Boone — View this family May 6, 1923 (Age 48 years) |
| Death of a father | William Howell Sikes Jr. April 22, 1929 (Age 54 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 54 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 | July 24, 1934 (Age 59 years) |