 Birth | April 19, 1861 |
 Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 5 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 5 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 7 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 16 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 son#1 | Frank Costa August 15, 1884 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Manuel Costa October 18, 1886 (Age 25 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Mary Costa May 17, 1887 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a son #4 | Joseph Costa 1888 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a son #5 | George Costa November 8, 1891 (Age 30 years) |
| Birth of a son #6 | Antone Costa April 25, 1892 (Age 31 years) |
 Marriage | Frank Pereira Costa — View this family November 16, 1893 (Age 32 years) |
| Birth of a son #7 | John Costa October 19, 1896 (Age 35 years) |
| Birth of a son #8 | Andrew Costa July 1898 (Age 37 years) Note: Birth date is shown as "July 1898" in the 1900 Census |
| Birth of a son #9 | Henry Costa July 31, 1898 (Age 37 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 36 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 39 years) |
| Birth of a son #10 | Alfredo Perriea Costa December 6, 1901 (Age 40 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #11 | Rosa Costa March 27, 1904 (Age 42 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Joseph Costa — Maria Quintal — View this family November 11, 1908 (Age 47 years) |
| Death of a son | Andrew Costa before 1910 (Age 48 years) Note: Andrew would have 12 yrs old in 1910; but, he is not listed in the 1910 Census with his father. It is presumed that he died before 1910. |
| Census | April 20, 1910 (Age 49 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Joseph Furtado Silva Jr — Mary Costa — View this family January 31, 1911 (Age 49 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Antone Costa — Frances Marie Lippold — View this family May 9, 1912 (Age 51 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Frank Costa — Rose Pimentel — View this family about 1913 (Age 51 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 54 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Marriage of a child | George Costa — Virginia Rosaline Pareira — View this family about 1917 (Age 55 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | George Andrew Costa March 30, 1918 (Age 56 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 55 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 56 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 12, 1920 (Age 58 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | Joseph W Costa Sr April 16, 1920 (Age 58 years) |
| Death of a son | Manuel Costa August 19, 1920 (Age 59 years) |
| Death of a son | George Costa November 17, 1920 (Age 59 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 68 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 3, 1930 (Age 68 years) |
| Death of a husband | Frank Pereira Costa June 5, 1935 (Age 74 years) |
| Census | April 13, 1940 (Age 78 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Rosa Costa September 27, 1944 (Age 83 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 80 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 | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 84 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 | December 29, 1946 (Age 85 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Old Mission Cemetery |