 Birth | March 27, 1896 31 28 |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 2 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 |
 Birth of a brother | Steven Rhea Thurman October 27, 1898 (Age 2 years) |
 Census | June 1, 1900 (Age 4 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Allen Gwyn Thurman April 3, 1904 (Age 8 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Isaac Newton Thurman September 9, 1906 (Age 10 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Nancy Jane Hinch June 29, 1908 (Age 12 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Dolly Juanita Thurman August 19, 1909 (Age 13 years) |
| Census | May 2, 1910 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Thomas Hall 1912 (Age 15 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 19 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 20 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 |
 Marriage | Lois Amanda McClellan — View this family about 1918 (Age 21 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 21 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/ |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | Geneva Helen Thurman March 14, 1919 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a father | John Curtis Thurman June 23, 1920 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Neville Deward Thurman May 12, 1921 (Age 25 years) |
| Death of a brother | Isaac Maylon Thurman October 6, 1922 (Age 26 years) Cause: Murdered |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 33 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 28, 1930 (Age 34 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Geneva Helen Thurman March 13, 1936 (Age 39 years) |
| Census | May 1, 1940 (Age 44 years) |
| Death of a brother | Steven Rhea Thurman February 10, 1944 (Age 47 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 45 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 | 1945 (Age 48 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Elida Cemetery |