 Birth | July 1877 35 24 |
 Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 6 months)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Census | June 21, 1880 (Age 2 years) |
 Birth of a sister | Rowena Permila Graham August 1886 (Age 9 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Wilkerson C Miller 1889 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a brother | William F Graham September 13, 1891 (Age 14 years) Cause: Typhoid fever |
| State Census | Kansas State Census March 1, 1895 (Age 17 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 20 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 13, 1900 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Elizabeth Shemwell February 1, 1903 (Age 25 years) |
| Death of a father | Samuel Reeder Graham February 10, 1905 (Age 27 years) |
| Census | April 22, 1910 (Age 32 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 38 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 39 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 40 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 mother | Mary Hanna Miller February 7, 1929 (Age 51 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 52 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 19, 1940 (Age 62 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 64 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 72 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 68 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 | November 15, 1965 (Age 88 years) |