 Birth | January 10, 1841 38 34 |
 Marriage | Mary E Riggins — View this family unknown |
 Birth of a sister | Isabella T Cherry December 23, 1842 (Age 23 months) |
| Birth of a brother | Melville Valentine Cherry February 5, 1845 (Age 4 years) |
| Birth of a brother | George Buchanan Cherry October 27, 1846 (Age 5 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Margaret Cherry May 17, 1848 (Age 7 years) |
 Historical Event | Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 (Age 4 years)Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | William Cherry May 7, 1849 (Age 8 years) |
 Census | June 1, 1850 (Age 9 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Charles T Cherry July 1, 1850 (Age 9 years) |
| Death of a mother | Delilah Dodd February 7, 1853 (Age 12 years) |
| Death of a brother | James Evans Cherry July 9, 1853 (Age 12 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | Lemuel G Cherry — Julia Sallee — View this family 1856 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Lydia Minerva Daniel September 1856 (Age 15 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Clarence E Cherry January 30, 1857 (Age 16 years) |
| Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 15 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 20 years)Note: 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 25 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 25 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 27 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 |
| Death of a father | Lemuel G Cherry November 16, 1870 (Age 29 years) |
| Death of a sister | Hardin M Cherry March 19, 1874 (Age 33 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 36 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 57 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 Ann Elizabeth Cherry February 19, 1906 (Age 65 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 74 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 75 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 76 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 brother | George Buchanan Cherry July 15, 1919 (Age 78 years) |
 Death | August 1, 1921 (Age 80 years) |