 Birth | November 23, 1875 42 37 |
 Death of a mother | Margaret Woodworth November 3, 1878 (Age 2 years) |
 Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 2 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Census | June 23, 1880 (Age 4 years) |
| Death of a sister | Mary Emoline Parke September 2, 1886 (Age 10 years) |
 Marriage | Walter Irving Cowel — View this family February 28, 1898 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Elbert Taylor Parke Sr. March 28, 1898 (Age 22 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 22 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 daughter #1 | Bertha Leona “Bertie” Cowel August 18, 1899 (Age 23 years) |
| Census | May 2, 1910 (Age 34 years) |
| Death of a father | Curtis Parke October 4, 1912 (Age 36 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 40 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 41 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 42 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 14, 1920 (Age 44 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Lawrence Lester “Lonnie” Krull — Bertha Leona “Bertie” Cowel — View this family March 27, 1927 (Age 51 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Bobby Gene Krull July 1, 1928 (Age 52 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 53 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 |
| Census | April 15, 1930 (Age 54 years) |
| Death of a brother | James Elbert Parke January 11, 1939 (Age 63 years) |
| Death of a husband | Walter Irving Cowel December 11, 1940 (Age 65 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 66 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 |
| Death of a sister | Margaret Jane Parke March 18, 1948 (Age 72 years) |
| Death of a sister | Elizabeth Ann Parke August 7, 1951 (Age 75 years) |
| Death of a brother | Seth Thomas Parke October 1, 1952 (Age 76 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 74 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 |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 70 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 | August 15, 1966 (Age 90 years) |