Fearless Females: A timeline

March is Women’s History Month and as such, today’s prompt focuses on my paternal great grandmother, Bessie Matys Hruszczak. The prompt for the Fearless Females Challenge is: Create a timeline for a female ancestor using your favorite software program or an online timeline generator such as OurTimelines. Post an image of it or link to it.

I am a strong believer in timelines so I thought I would love this one. Not so much. The program asks for a name ad birth and death year. It provides world events. The timeline that OurTimelines created for Bessie is: http://www.ourtimelines.com/cgi-bin/makehist.pl

My simple timeline:

1895 – Bessie is born to Joseph Matys and Olena Vaspleship

1904-1905 – Russian-Japanese War

1912 – Immigrates to

America

in October (that April the Titanic had sunk); settled in Coatesville

1914-1919 – WWI (US entered in 1917)

1915 – Marries Panko Hruszczak

1916 – 1^st son Theodore born

1918 – 2^nd son Joseph born; 1^st son Theodore dies in flu epidemic; Prohibition begins (thru 1933)

1919 – 3^rd son (also) Theodore born

1921 – 4^th son Nicholas born

1922 – 5^th son Paul born

1925? – daughter Katie born

1926 – daughter Mary born

Bet 1928-1930 – daughter Helen born.

1929-1930 – Great Depression

1930 – daughter Ann born

1932 – 6^th son Peter born

1939-1945 – WWII (sons Nick and Paul both served)

1950-1953 – Korean War (son Pete served)

1963 – US President John F Kennedy assassinated

1964-1975 – Vietnam Conflict (grandsons served)

1968 – husband passed

1972 – Bessie passed

Fearless Females is a daily prompt throughout March celebrating Women’s History Month initiated by Lisa A Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist

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