 Birth | June 14, 1865 19 23 |
 Birth of a brother | Simeon Tollett about 1867 (Age 18 months) |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 18 months)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 18 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 3 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 |
 Census | August 23, 1870 (Age 5 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Harriet Tollett about 1872 (Age 6 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Tilda Tollett about 1875 (Age 9 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 12 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 4, 1880 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a mother | Sarah H Selby 1883 (Age 17 years) |
 Marriage | Elmyra Elizabeth “Myria” Hill — View this family October 17, 1891 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | Annie Mai Tollett August 23, 1896 (Age 31 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 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 maternal grandfather | Simeon Selby June 19, 1900 (Age 35 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Rebecca Jane Hyder between 1880 and 1900 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a father | Samuel Wilson Tollett after 1900 (Age 34 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Joe Lee Tollett January 15, 1901 (Age 35 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Alice Tollett 1904 (Age 38 years) Note: Each census her birth year changes. Her headstone does read that she was born in 1911. But the 1910 census (first census she appears in), states that she was born in 1904. |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Lula N Tollett 1908 (Age 42 years) |
| Birth of a son #5 | Burrel Wilson Tollett March 10, 1912 (Age 46 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 50 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 51 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 52 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 14, 1928 (Age 63 years) Cause of death: TB are in other words consumption Note: His death month looks to be Jan or Jun. But below the doctor states that he accompanied John on July 1, 1928. |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Clouse Cemetery |