 Birth | June 25, 1861 31 21 |
 Death of a father | Cornelius Loftin September 17, 1862 (Age 14 months) Cause: Civil War |
 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 |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | John B Loftin October 1, 1870 (Age 9 years) |
| 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 |
| Marriage of a parent | Jessie Lane — Honor Demanda Garner — View this family before 1880 (Age 18 years) |
 Census | June 17, 1880 (Age 18 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Sarah “Sallie” Shemwell April 17, 1882 (Age 20 years) |
 Marriage | Solomon Roby Morris — View this family about 1887 (Age 25 years) |
| Birth of a son #1 | Finch Charles Morris August 9, 1889 (Age 28 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Ed Van Morris November 11, 1891 (Age 30 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Hoke Morris February 24, 1898 (Age 36 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Lanta Mae Morris March 10, 1900 (Age 38 years) |
| Census | June 27, 1900 (Age 39 years) |
| Census | April 25, 1910 (Age 48 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Finch Charles Morris — Etta Florence Harrison — View this family April 12, 1911 (Age 49 years) |
| Death of a mother | Honor Demanda Garner April 23, 1915 (Age 53 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 |
| 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 21, 1920 (Age 58 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Hoke Morris — Mary Lee Carroll — View this family January 23, 1927 (Age 65 years) |
 Death | November 13, 1927 (Age 66 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Toms Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery |