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Jeptha's life spanned about 86 years during which time there were four wars, 17 presidents (18 administrations1) and numerous other family, national, and international important or historic events. They are listed below showing the date, the event and Jeptha's age (rounded to the nearest year) at the time.
Footnotes follow the table.
Date Event Age 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln 16th President of USA 00-03 April 11 1861 Civil War begins when South Carolina Forces under General Beauregard fire on Ft. Sumter July 1 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act authorizing the first transcontinental railroad July 22 1862 Jeptha born to John Seaborn & Margaret Brumfield Alford 00 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson 17th President of USA 03-07 April 8 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House 03 October 1869 Fannie Ophelia Purvis, to be his first wife, born to ? Purvis & Mary Elizabeth Hinson 07 March 8 1871 Laura Jane Warner, to be his second wife, born to Daniel C. Warner & Laura Drucilla Holmes 09 1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of USA 07-15 1877-1881 Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President of USA 15-19 1881 James A. Garfield 20th President of USA 19 1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur 21st President of USA 19-23 about 1885 Married Fannie Ophelia Purvis 23 1885-1889 Grover Cleveland 22nd President of USA 23-27 July 10 1886 Son Wiley Banton Alford born and he died 1976 @ age 90 24 March 9 1888 Daughter Frankie Leoda Alford born and she died 1971 @ age 83 26 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison 23rd President of USA 27-31 October 2 1889 Daughter Nola Alford born and she died 1952 @ age 63 27 July 10 1891 Son Alonzo Seaborn Alford born and he died 1964 @ age 73 29 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland 24th President of USA 31-35 July 14 1893 Unnamed infant born and died 31 August 25 1895 Son Iddo Lampton Alford born and he died 1960 @ age 65 33 October 3 1896 Fannie Ophelia Purvis died @ about age 27 34 May 12 1897 Married Laura Jane Warner 35 1897-1901 William McKinley 25th President of USA 35-39 April 24 1898 Spain declares war on the United States 36 August 2 1898 Unnamed infant born and died 36 August 30 1900 Daughter Roxie Udine Alford born and she died 1956 @ age 56 38 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of USA 39-47 November 9 1901 Son Gilbert Kendric Alford born and he died 1997 @ age 96 39 March 1 1903 Son Lora Warner Alford born and he died 1987 @ age 84 41 June 11 1905 Daughter Nola Alford married Edgar William Smith 43 September 3 1905 Son Wiley Banton Alford married Emma Rosetta Miller 43 September 2 1906 Daughter Frankie Leoda Alford married William Vandon Smith 44 September 29 1906 Daughter Lexi Drucilla Alford born and she died 1989 @ age 83 44 December 16 1906 Grandson Burchel Lazar Alford born, son of Wiley Banton Alford 44 April 22 1908 Gussie Alford born and she died 1994 @ age 86 46 1909-1913 William Howard Taft 27th President of USA 47-51 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson 28th President of USA 51-59 January 24 1916 The Supreme Court finds that a federal income tax is constitutional 54 March 9 1916 Pancho Villa leads an attack of 1500 men into New Mexico and kills 17 Americans. 54 April 2 1917 President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany 55 Nov 11 1918 Germany signs surrender. 56 1921-1923 William Gamaliel Harding 29th President of USA 59-61 October 24 1923 Daughter Roxie Udine Alford married Martin Kenzie Penton 61 1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge 30th President of USA 61-67 May 26 1924 Son Gilbert Kendric Alford married Mattie Inez Newsom 62 July 24 1925 Son Lora Warner Alford married Grace Gipson 63 November 26 1926 Daughter Lexie Drucilla Alford married Milton M. Turner 64 1929-1933 Herbert Clark Hoover 31st President of USA 67-71 June 13 1932 Daughter Gussie Alford married Duvoix Brown Fortinberry 70 1933-1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd President of USA 71-83 December 7 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor 79 December 11 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. and Congress declares war on Germany 79 1945-1953 Harry S. Truman 33rd President of USA 83- May 7 1945 Germans surrender the Allies and to General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Rheims France 83 August 6 1945 The United States drops its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan 83 August 17 1945 The Allies divide Korea at the 38th parallel with U.S. troops moving into the south 83 September 2 1945 The Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri 83 May 14 1948 Israel declares itself an independent nation and the U.S. is the first nation to recognize it 86 May 26 1948 Jeptha Martin Alford died @ age 86 86
Footnotes
1 Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th presidents.