 Birth | October 18, 1890 37 34 |
 Birth of a sister | Maude Dorton October 25, 1893 (Age 3 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Ida M Dorton October 14, 1896 (Age 5 years) |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 7 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 27, 1900 (Age 9 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Elizabeth W Kerley October 17, 1900 (Age 9 years) |
| Death of a brother | William Osborne Dorton August 17, 1901 (Age 10 years) |
| Census | May 12, 1910 (Age 19 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 25 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 26 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 27 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 | February 13, 1920 (Age 29 years) |
| Death of a father | Joseph David Dorton June 11, 1924 (Age 33 years) |
| Death of a sister | Maude Dorton April 12, 1927 (Age 36 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 38 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 | November 25, 1929 (Age 39 years) Cause of death: Pulmonary tuberculosis |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Crossville City Cemetery |