 Birth | March 6, 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 9 months)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 9 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 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 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Emma Gennette “Nellie” Loftin — View this family April 22, 1885 (Age 19 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Lula Mae Smith July 11, 1886 (Age 20 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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 son #2 | Charley Smith May 1899 (Age 33 years) |
 Census | June 7, 1900 (Age 34 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Charles Price “Charley” Smith Sr. June 19, 1900 (Age 34 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Jacob Garfield Coggin — Lula Mae Smith — View this family June 30, 1904 (Age 38 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Jacob Claud Coggin August 23, 1905 (Age 39 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Grace Lee Coggin May 6, 1907 (Age 41 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | James Paul Coggin August 20, 1909 (Age 43 years) |
| Death of a son | Charley Smith before 1910 (Age 43 years) |
| Census | April 28, 1910 (Age 44 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | Mary Pauline Coggin November 11, 1910 (Age 44 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | Joseph B “Joe” Coggin December 1914 (Age 48 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #6 | Lula Annie Coggin April 5, 1916 (Age 50 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Birth of a grandson #7 | Foy Thomas Coggin March 31, 1918 (Age 52 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 50 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 51 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 8, 1920 (Age 53 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #8 | Catherine Jeanette Coggin September 14, 1920 (Age 54 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #9 | Opal May Coggin September 26, 1923 (Age 57 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Charles Price “Charley” Smith Sr. — Ollie G Love — View this family April 12, 1924 (Age 58 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #10 | Charles Price Smith Jr April 10, 1927 (Age 61 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #11 | Geraldine Coggin June 20, 1927 (Age 61 years) |
| Death of a grandson | Joseph B “Joe” Coggin October 17, 1928 (Age 62 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 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 | March 6, 1930 (Age 64 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Clear Springs Cemetery |