Melva Jean Emmerich, b: -

^{1969 Armstrong first person on the moon}
^{1973 US launches Skylab space station}
^{1981 Columbia is first space shuttle}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}
^{1992 Trade Pact, US, Canada, Mexico}

^{1929 The Great Depression begins}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}
^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}

^{1898 Spanish-American War}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1908 Ford produces Model T}
^{1913 Edison invents movies w/sound}
^{1914 - 1918 World War I}


			^{Frank Charles Kirkman}^{b.1899 Lindsay, Tulare, CA d.1980 Exeter, Tulare County, CA}

		^{Charles Claude Kirkman}^{b.1922 Exeter, Tulare, California d.}	^{Esther Elizabeth Hash}^{b.1899 Arkansas d.1927 Exeter, Tulare County, CA}

	^{Jan Charles Kirkman}^{b. Private d.}

^{Jennifer Lynn Kirkman}^{b. Private d.}		^{Frances Jane Britten}^b.1923 d.

^{Michael Jan Kirkman}^{b. Private d.}

^{Albert Charles Kirkman}^{b. Private d.}

	^{Melva Jean Emmerich}^{b. d.}