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Born
Annie Sullivan is born. According to her baptismal certificate, her birth name was Johanna Mansfield Sullivan, but she was called Anne. She was the daughter of Thomas and Alice Sullivan, Irish immigrants who could not read and were almost penniless. She had a brother, Jimmie, and two sisters, Ellen, and Mary. -
Annie's mother dies
Alice Sullican died, of tuberculosis, afterwhich Annie and Jimmie were sent to an almshouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Annie spent four years here. -
Annie goes to Perkins Institute For The Blind
Annie, blind from untreated trachoma, goes to the Perkins Institue for the Blind -
Annie arrives at the Keller Homestead
On March 3, Annie Sullivan arrives at Ivy Green to teach Helen Keller. -
Annie helps Helen realize what words mean
This is the date that Helen Keller realized that words things have names, specifically identifying them with the helo if Annie Sullivan. -
Annie takes Helen to the Perkins Institure For The Blind
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Annie marries John Albert Macy
On May 3, Annie marries John A. Macy, a Harvard Institute instructor and literary critic. (This is only 95 years before my birthday, being on May 3, 2000!! :D) -
Annie and John seperate
By 1914, the marriage began to disintegrate. Macy was listed as living as a "lodger" with Helen and Annie in the 1920 U.S. Census. The two never officially divorced. In the early years of their seperation, Macy wrote and asked for money, but he seemed to have faded from Annie's life. She never remarried. -
nnie and Helen are both awarded honorary fellowships from the Educational Institute of Scotland.
They were also awarded honorary degrees from Temple University -
Death :(
Annie, age 70, died on October 20, 1936, after a period of being in a coma. She died holding Helen's hand. When Helen died in 1968, her ashes were placed in the Washington Natioanal Cathedral next to those of Annie's.