 Birth | March 1883 43 29 |
 Birth of a sister | C Sidney Llewellyn Carpenter December 28, 1886 (Age 3 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Newton Ford Carpenter July 18, 1888 (Age 5 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Ethel Briscoe Carpenter February 1890 (Age 6 years) |
| Death of a father | James Walter Carpenter January 2, 1897 (Age 13 years) |
 D.A.R. | ID. Number: 51909 |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 15 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 |
 Census | June 1, 1900 (Age 17 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Jane Eleanor Shemwell January 29, 1901 (Age 17 years) |
| Death of a mother | Mary Alice Llewellyn Bunting February 27, 1905 (Age 21 years) |
 Marriage | Paul Tappan — View this family September 11, 1909 (Age 26 years) |
 Residence | 1916 (Age 32 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 32 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 33 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 34 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 | Ethel Briscoe Carpenter February 13, 1919 (Age 35 years) Note: Date of death is actually date of burial permit; died at age 29y |
| Census | January 30, 1920 (Age 36 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | Laura Maryland Carpenter Blinn September 12, 1924 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 46 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 brother | Walter Raymond Carpenter after 1930 (Age 46 years) |
| Religious marriage | Charles Payson Blinn Jr. — View this family April 13, 1937 (Age 54 years) |
| Census | April 25, 1940 (Age 57 years) |
| Death of a sister | Lola May Carpenter August 11, 1941 (Age 58 years) |
| Death of a brother | Arthur Dudley Carpenter July 28, 1944 (Age 61 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 58 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 |
| Marriage of a child | David Spencer Atkinson Jr — Laura Maryland Carpenter Blinn — View this family February 1948 (Age 64 years) |
| Death of a brother | Newton Ford Carpenter November 18, 1949 (Age 66 years) |
| Death of a husband | Paul Tappan August 7, 1951 (Age 68 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 66 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 husband | Charles Payson Blinn Jr. November 22, 1966 (Age 83 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 62 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 | January 2, 1972 (Age 88 years) |