Whit Eugene Steddum, b: 1950 -

^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}
^{1969 Armstrong first person on the moon}
^{1973 US launches Skylab space station}
^{1981 Columbia is first space shuttle}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}

^{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}


		^{James William Steddum}^{b.1879 Mount Calm, Hill, Texas d.1945 Eastland, Texas}

	^{Whitfield F Steddum}^{b.1913 Texas d.1982 Tyler, Texas}	^{Myrtle Ann Bailey}^{b.1886 Paducah, Cottle, Texas d.1946}

^{Whit Eugene Steddum}^b.1950 d.

	^{Wanda Irene Jackson}^{b. d.}



	^{Lewis Jackson Gifford}^{b.1923 Brown, Texas d.2003 Comanche, Texas}

^{Bernice Nadine Gifford}^{b.1952 Eastland, Texas d.}		^{Edgar Carroll Abbey}^{b.1893 Eastland, Texas d.1961 Comanche, Texas}

	^{Vera Nadine Abbey}^{b.1925 Coleman, Texas d.2000 San Antonio, Bexar, Texas}	^{Bernice Kelley}^{b.1897 Brown, Texas d.1962 Comanche, Texas}