 Birth | February 19, 1847 22 18 |
 Death of a father | William Murphy Reed 1847 Cause: Accident, Falling Tree |
| Birth of a brother | William M Reed Jr. September 5, 1848 (Age 18 months) |
 Historical Event | Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848Note: 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 |
| Marriage of a parent | Noah Park — Margaret McCain — View this family Type: Civil marriage December 2, 1849 (Age 2 years) |
 Census | August 16, 1850 (Age 3 years) |
| Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 9 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Census | August 2, 1860 (Age 13 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Noah Reed after 1860 (Age 12 years) |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 14 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 19 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 19 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 21 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 | June 15, 1870 (Age 23 years) |
 Religious marriage | Arvila Stephens — View this family September 28, 1871 (Age 24 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 30 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 paternal grandmother | Nancy Shemwell February 22, 1879 (Age 32 years) Note: Newspaper Abstracts of Graves County, Kentucky |
| Census | June 18, 1880 (Age 33 years) |
| Death of a wife | Arvila Stephens June 20, 1898 (Age 51 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 51 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 | Margaret McCain May 8, 1899 (Age 52 years) |
| Census | June 8, 1900 (Age 53 years) |
| Religious marriage | Minnie E Bailey — View this family March 1901 (Age 54 years) |
 Death | October 16, 1909 (Age 62 years) |