Family History Project

By TiffanieMG

  • Kansas becomes a State

    Kansas becomes a Free State joinging the Union G.E. Meeker, my grandpa's grandpa, was one of the first legislators for teh state of Kansas

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    1861-1865

  • WWI

    WWI
    1914-1918

  • Black Tuesday

    Stock Market Crash begins the Great Depression

  • Dust Bowl

    Grandma remembers her mom, Irean, wetting down a sheet and throwing it over the table. She would put Grandma and her toys under the tale and sheet to keep the dust from getting to her.

  • WWII Begins

    WWII
    1939-1945 Grandma remembers planes flying over in formation and there being so many of them they blocked out the sun. She also remembers trains going by multiple times a day loaded with tanks and soldiers.

  • Pearl Harbor

  • End of WWII

  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Grandpa Spencer was drafted to fight in this war. When I asked him if he wanted to tell me anything about his time in Korea, he said "No, it was just a nasty little war."
  • Beverly Clark and Charles Donald Meeker Wed

    Beverly Clark and Charles Donald Meeker Wed

  • Gladys and Delmer Spencer Wed

    Gladys and Delmer Spencer Wed

  • Worst Tornado in town history

    Tornado killed 20 people, injured 280
  • Loss of Infant Son

    Loss of Infant Son

    Stuart Allen

  • Vietnam War begins

  • US Troops begin leaving Vietnam

  • End of the Vietnam War

  • Delmer and Jacqueline Spencer Wed

    Delmer and Jacqueline Spencer Wed

  • September 11 Attakcs

  • Tiffanie and Kevin Gray Wed

    Tiffanie and Kevin Gray Wed

  • Spencer James Gray Born

    Spencer James Gray Born