 Birth | January 9, 1917 24 21 |
 Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918Note: 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 11 months)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 7, 1920 (Age 2 years) |
 Birth of a brother | Lewis Wendell Troutman October 16, 1920 (Age 3 years) |
| Census | 1925 (Age 7 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Charles Edwin “Charlie” Troutman December 30, 1926 (Age 9 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 12 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 5, 1930 (Age 13 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Ezra Troutman September 23, 1931 (Age 14 years) |
| Birth of a brother | David Lee Troutman December 25, 1931 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Clara Belle Wilhite 1938 (Age 20 years) |
| Census | April 5, 1940 (Age 23 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 24 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 paternal grandmother | Sarah Elizabeth Sheets December 28, 1948 (Age 31 years) |
| Census | April 27, 1950 (Age 33 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 32 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 |
| Birth of a son #1 | Michael Dale Gilchrist July 16, 1956 (Age 39 years) |
| Death of a father | Lewis Guy Troutman April 14, 1959 (Age 42 years) |
| Death of a mother | Edna Belle Cottle February 13, 1965 (Age 48 years) |
| Death of a husband | Charles Henry Gilchrist July 25, 1971 (Age 54 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 28 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 of a brother | David Lee Troutman May 7, 1979 (Age 62 years) |
| Death of a brother | Lewis Wendell Troutman June 10, 1990 (Age 73 years) |
| Death of a sister | Ersel Belle Troutman May 14, 1991 (Age 74 years) |
| Death of a brother | Charles Edwin “Charlie” Troutman August 19, 2001 (Age 84 years) |
| Death of a son | Michael Dale Gilchrist August 12, 2005 (Age 88 years) |
| Obituary | Jessie Gilchrist (nee Troutman) Obituary and Family Listing |
 Death | April 11, 2011 (Age 94 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Resthaven Gardens of Memory |