1922- Eugene is born in Roxana
1926- Eugene moves to Alton after living out west with his family
1931- Eugene goes on a vacation to Atlanta, Georgia
1931- Eugene and other boys from the YMCA go to a baseball game, where the St. Louis Cardinals played against the Cincinnati Reds
1933- Eugene visits West Plains, Missouri with Robert
1934- Eugene helps Helen and Robert run the soda stand
1936- Eugene goes to Rock Spring Park with fellow eighth graders of East Junior High and wins a race
1937- Eugene becomes eligible to join Alton High's basketball team
1937- Eugene wins a place on the Alton High honor roll
1938- Eugene and Helen are guests at a bridal shower at Main Street Methodist Church
1938- Eugene is featured in the Alton Telegraph as a new member of the Quill & Scroll Club at Alton High School
1939- Eugene becomes the editor of Alton High's Tatler yearbook
1939- Eugene plays Father Malachu in MSMC's dramatic play, The Gift
1939- Eugene is listed in a Young's Dry Goods Store newspaper ad for the upcoming new year
1940- Eugene is involved in a minor car accident with Ray Crawford
1940- Eugene graduates from high school
1940- Eugene goes to Shurtleff College and is a manager of the Shurtleff Pioneer (business in '40 and circulation in '41)
1941- Eugene joins the US Air Corps in January, traveling to Scott Field to work as a ground mechanic
1942- Eugene visits Harold and Addie before departing to Napier Field in Dolhan, Alabama
1943- Eugene is made a corporal at Seymour, Indiana
1944 or 1945- Eugene suffers from a rheumatic heart ailment
1946- Eugene marries Lois Mae French on February 28th
1946- Eugene divorces Lois
1947- Eugene works at Shell Oil Company and studies at St. Louis University
1947- Eugene marries June Turner on November 1st
1948 or 1949- Eugene and June move from their house on 3317 Leverett Street to the Wanous Apartments
1950- Eugene's apartment has a cleaning fluid flash, causing some damage and a slight burn on his right hand
1953- Eugene is a pallbearer at his grandpa Sherman's funeral
1955- Eugene marries Mary F. on July 2nd
1955- Eugene is charged with embezzling $3,313.30 from his employer, Walston Aviation, on October 29th
1955- Eugene ends the year by being released from the Madison County Jail on a $5,000 bond
1956- Eugene is granted probation along with three other men
1956- Eugene is divorced from Mary on February 17th on the grounds of an embezzlement charge from two weeks before
1956- Eugene is employed at Royce Rogers, a government contracting firm in St. Louis
1957- Eugene has surgery
1959- Eugene dies of a heart attack