 Birth | October 12, 1861 39 33 |
 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 |
 Death of a mother | Arena Edwards February 5, 1866 (Age 4 years) |
| 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 |
| Marriage of a parent | Andrew Jackson Edwards — Amanda Latham — View this family 1869 (Age 7 years) |
| 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 |
| Birth of a half-sister | Rosa Bell Edwards December 26, 1870 (Age 9 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Addie S Edwards November 7, 1872 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a sister | Mary Elizabeth Edwards about 1874 (Age 12 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | James Edwards May 1, 1875 (Age 13 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Elbert Ovie Edwards December 23, 1876 (Age 15 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 | Tobis Hightower — View this family December 2, 1880 (Age 19 years) |
| Birth of a son #1 | Horace Hightower October 1881 (Age 19 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Milen J Edwards February 8, 1883 (Age 21 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Coy Clair Hightower September 23, 1884 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a father | Andrew Jackson Edwards September 28, 1885 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Victor Earl Hightower January 30, 1886 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Hazel Dell Hightower April 3, 1891 (Age 29 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #5 | Myrtle Mae Hightower February 1894 (Age 32 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 #6 | Ruby V Hightower February 22, 1900 (Age 38 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Ruby V Hightower October 2, 1903 (Age 41 years) |
| Death of a husband | Tobis Hightower January 27, 1904 (Age 42 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Coy Clair Hightower — Annie Belle Adams — View this family July 7, 1906 (Age 44 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Warren Clair Hightower July 14, 1907 (Age 45 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Allie Mildred Hightower March 31, 1912 (Age 50 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/ |
| Death of a daughter | Myrtle Mae Hightower 1923 (Age 61 years) |
| Death of a brother | William Harrison Edwards July 7, 1926 (Age 64 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 67 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 of a brother | Howell B Edwards July 10, 1933 (Age 71 years) |
| Death of a half-sister | Rosa Bell Edwards November 27, 1938 (Age 77 years) |
 Death | May 11, 1941 (Age 79 years) |