 Birth | October 12, 1839 41 38 |
 Death of a mother | Ruth Casey November 18, 1847 (Age 8 years) |
 Historical Event | Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 (Age 6 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 maternal grandfather | Abner Elsberry Casey July 1, 1850 (Age 10 years) |
| Death of a brother | Willis Anderson Ray July 17, 1858 (Age 18 years) |
| Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 17 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Death of a sister | Nancy Maranda Ray October 2, 1862 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a brother | Calvin James Ray December 1, 1864 (Age 25 years) |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 21 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Elizabeth Riley Bowen about 1865 (Age 25 years) |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 27 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 27 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 29 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 |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 38 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 | Cynthia Manerva “Ann” Ray after 1880 (Age 40 years) |
| Death of a sister | Elizabeth Ann “Betsy” Ray August 13, 1882 (Age 42 years) |
| Death of a sister | Sarah Melinda Ray August 13, 1882 (Age 42 years) |
| Burial of a sister | Elizabeth Ann “Betsy” Ray after August 13, 1882 (Age 42 years) Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Rhea Cemetery |
| Death of a brother | James Carroll Ray December 25, 1893 (Age 54 years) |
| Death of a father | Hix Jones Ray October 10, 1895 (Age 55 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 58 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 Perlina Ray December 10, 1908 (Age 69 years) |
| Death of a sister | Kiziah Caroline “Kizzie” Ray January 11, 1916 (Age 76 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 76 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Death of a sister | Martha Melissa Ray September 16, 1918 (Age 78 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 77 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 78 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 | June 6, 1921 (Age 81 years) |