 Birth | about 1868 44 37 |
 Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 12 months)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 |
 Census | October 8, 1870 (Age 2 years) |
 Death of a maternal grandfather | Nicholas Christian March 15, 1872 (Age 4 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Sarah “Sally” Shemwell October 1877 (Age 9 years) Cause: Died of Dropsy |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Census | June 19, 1880 (Age 12 years) |
| Death of a father | Jephthah I Harris November 29, 1887 (Age 19 years) |
 Marriage | William Lewis Richmond — View this family about 1891 (Age 23 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 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 |
| Death of a sister | Mary Maltilda “Molly” Harris September 29, 1902 (Age 34 years) |
| Death of a brother | William L Harris October 8, 1910 (Age 42 years) |
| Death of a mother | Phada Jane “Fadie” Christian October 19, 1911 (Age 43 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 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 49 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 50 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 | July 24, 1919 (Age 51 years) |