Catharine A DillonAge: 81 years1867–1948
- Name
- Catharine A Dillon
- Given names
- Catharine A
- Surname
- Dillon
- Married name
- Catharine A Floyd
 Birth | May 15, 1867 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: 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 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 19 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 |
| 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 |
 Marriage | Edmund Brader Floyd — View this family September 30, 1886 (Age 19 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 |
 Birth of a son#1 | Ralph Eugene Floyd August 24, 1904 (Age 37 years) |
 Census | April 15, 1910 (Age 42 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/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 62 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 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Sharon Lee Floyd April 24, 1930 (Age 62 years) |
| Death of a husband | Edmund Brader Floyd May 21, 1933 (Age 66 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 74 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 | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 78 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 | October 22, 1948 (Age 81 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Calvary Cemetery |
| Family with Edmund Brader Floyd |
| husband |
Edmund Brader Floyd Birth: January 31, 1864 — Pennsylvania, United States Death: May 21, 1933 — Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States |
| herself |
Catharine A Dillon Birth: May 15, 1867 — Pennsylvania, United States Death: October 22, 1948 — Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States |
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Marriage: September 30, 1886 — Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States |
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18 years son |
Ralph Eugene Floyd Birth: August 24, 1904 40 37 — New York, United States Death: February 25, 1993 — Porter, Indiana, United States |
| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Edmund Brader Floyd - Household
Lackawanna, Erie, New York, United States
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