Althea G GilliamAge: 72 years1865–1938
- Name
- Althea G Gilliam
- Given names
- Althea G
- Surname
- Gilliam
 Birth | June 2, 1865 53 43 |
 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 |
 Death of a father | William Luther “Buck” Gilliam about 1871 (Age 5 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 |
| Death of a sister | Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam 1891 (Age 25 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 mother | Sarah A Cooley about 1905 (Age 39 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 of a sister | Emma B Gilliam March 4, 1926 (Age 60 years) |
| Death of a brother | William Luther Gilliam April 13, 1927 (Age 61 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 64 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 | Thomas Gray Gilliam April 22, 1930 (Age 64 years) |
 Death | April 12, 1938 (Age 72 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
William Luther “Buck” Gilliam Birth: about 1812 62 37 Death: about 1871 — Thomasville, Oregon, Missouri, United States |
| mother |
Sarah A Cooley Birth: about 1822 25 19 — Tennessee, United States Death: about 1905 — Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States |
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Marriage: about 1838 — |
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2 years elder sister |
Georgia Ann Gilliam Birth: 1839 27 17 — Tennessee, United States Death: |
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6 years elder sister |
Florence Gilliam Birth: 1844 32 22 — Tennessee, United States Death: |
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4 years elder brother |
William Luther Gilliam Birth: December 25, 1847 35 25 — Weakley, Tennessee, United States Death: April 13, 1927 |
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13 months elder sister |
Nancy Elizabeth Gilliam Birth: January 11, 1849 37 27 — Weakley, Tennessee, United States Death: 1891 — Fredonia, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States |
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5 years elder sister |
America Capitola Gilliam Birth: 1853 41 31 Death: |
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3 years elder brother |
Thomas Gray Gilliam Birth: October 23, 1855 43 33 — Weakley, Tennessee, United States Death: April 22, 1930 |
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4 years elder brother |
Emerson Gilliam Birth: 1859 47 37 — Weakley, Tennessee, United States Death: |
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5 years elder sister |
Emma B Gilliam Birth: November 23, 1863 51 41 — Weakley, Tennessee, United States Death: March 4, 1926 |
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18 months herself |
Althea G Gilliam Birth: June 2, 1865 53 43 — Como, Henry, Tennessee, United States Death: April 12, 1938 |