Kuhns in a historical context

I know that alot of times hearing dates when a person was born and the dates of when that person died can be very confusing. In this post I am going to try to put a few of our ancestors in place with important historical events that occurred during their lifetime.
Mary Katherine who is my five time great grandmother and the wife of William was born in Pennsylvania around the year 1760. She was born during the French and Indian war which must have been a dangerous time to live in because of the constant threat of an Indian attack. She, along with William, were alive and even in the same state when the Declaration of Independence was signed. This must have been a very frightening, yet amazing time to live in. America had just declared herself free of the most powerful nations in the world. I can just imagine my ancestors sitting around the dinner table talking about the Declaration of Independence and if America could win her independence much like we still talk about politics today at the dinner table. Mary Katherine and William both lived through the revolution and 17 years after it was over Mary Katherine left as a widow to rejoin her family in Tennessee. Mary Katherine died in the year 1831 in Carter County, Tennessee.
Most of her sons would have already died before the Civil War but it is possible her son John was alive for the start of the war. Mary's grandson Joseph would have been alive during the civil war. He was the son of John and Mahalah. He would have been in his later twenties when the civil war began. He must have heard stories of Gettysburg and Sherman's march to the sea. He probably thought about joining the fight. I am unsure of what side he would have chosen to support because so many people in the eastern part of Tennessee and Western part of North Carolina supported the Union.
Joseph's son was Millard Fillmore. Millard lived from 1851-1929. He was ten years old when the Civil War erupted. He would have seen California adopted into the union early in his lifetime. He would have been 26 when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He also lived during the Spanish-American war and he saw the separate but equal standard passed by congress. He also lived through World War I. Shortly before his death he must have heard a story about a man who flew a plane all the way across the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh. If I could pick any one's life to live during it would definitely have been Millard's. He saw some of the greatest events in America's history.
Samuel Elsworth Kuhn was born in the 1890's. In his life he saw World War II take place and saw the Korean War start.
I hope this has helped put our ancestors lives into more of a perspective for you. There is no doubt that our ancestors have given us a history to be proud of.