 Birth | December 1, 1918 34 29 |
 Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918Note: 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 20, 1920 (Age 13 months) |
 Death of a maternal grandfather | John Franklin Pruitt April 30, 1924 (Age 5 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 10 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 4, 1930 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Neoma Angeline “Oma” Beckham April 22, 1930 (Age 11 years) |
| Census | April 20, 1940 (Age 21 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 23 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 31 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 |
| Death of a father | Wallace S Mefford December 8, 1959 (Age 41 years) |
| Death of a mother | Maudie Pruitt March 19, 1971 (Age 52 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 27 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 sister | Pansy Lee Mefford November 1985 (Age 66 years) |
 Death | January 4, 1997 (Age 78 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Hopewell Cemetery |