 Birth | May 2, 1865 30 27 |
 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 19 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 19 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 3 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 |
 Birth of a sister | Eliza Jane Bullard April 3, 1870 (Age 4 years) |
 Census | July 14, 1870 (Age 5 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 12 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | George Washington Sullivan — View this family August 3, 1887 (Age 22 years) |
| Birth of a son #1 | James Wright Sullivan April 22, 1888 (Age 22 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | John Lawrence Sullivan October 10, 1890 (Age 25 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Buena Vista Sullivan April 2, 1893 (Age 27 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Liva Fay Sullivan May 12, 1897 (Age 32 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 #5 | George Oscar Sullivan May 7, 1900 (Age 35 years) |
| Census | June 19, 1900 (Age 35 years) |
| Census | April 1910 (Age 44 years) |
| Death of a father | Ephrem Willard Bullard April 6, 1915 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 50 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Death of a mother | Linda Eliva Austin September 13, 1918 (Age 53 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 51 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 52 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 3, 1920 (Age 54 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 64 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 11, 1930 (Age 64 years) |
| Death of a son | John Lawrence Sullivan August 15, 1939 (Age 74 years) Associate: George Washington Sullivan
Associate: Willmuth Ann Bullard
|
 Death | John Lawrence Sullivan August 15, 1939 (Age 74 years) |
| Death of a husband | George Washington Sullivan December 29, 1939 (Age 74 years) |
| Census | April 8, 1940 (Age 74 years) |
| Death of a sister | Eliza Jane Bullard October 23, 1942 (Age 77 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 76 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 | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 84 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 |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 80 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 | May 15, 1953 (Age 88 years) |
| Death | James Wright Sullivan June 6, 1965 (Age 100 years) |
| Death | Buena Vista Sullivan November 9, 1966 (Age 101 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Hillcrest Cemetery |