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1914 - 1918 World War I
1929 The Great Depression begins
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1879 Edison invents phono/light bulb
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1908 Ford produces Model T
1913 Edison invents movies w/sound
1812 - 1814 War of 1812 with Britain
1846 War w/Mexico,Calif & NM acquired
1861 - 1865 Civil War, North vs. South
1867 Alaska Territory purchased
1869 Transcontinental Railroad complete
 William James Brittain
 b.1824 Surrey Co., North Carolina
 d.1887
 Pompy Tom Brittain
 b.         
 d.         
 Roderick Royster Wiggins
 b.1810 Kentucky
 d.1860
 Levisah Wiggins
 b.1837
 d.         
 Nancy Lout
 b.1811
 d.1849
 Lizzie Cash
 b.         
 d.