Birth
1939

Born to Lake Era Taylor and Herbert Herman Henry. She was born at home on the front porch.
17 Dec 1939 • Red Lick, Bowie, Texas, USA

1940
7 months

1942
2

Birth of sister also at home.
12 Jan 1942 • Red Lick, Bowie, Texas, USA

1946
6

Death of father Herbert Hermon Henry (1917–1946)
6 Jan 1946 • Korea

1947
7

Mother remarries
1 Nov 1947 • Miller, Arkansas, United States
Marvin Preston Hines
(1924–2012)

1950
10

Residence
1950 • Red Cut Heights, Bowie, Texas, USA

1951
11

Birth of half-brother
7 Jan 1951 • Texarkana, Arkansas, USA (born in a hospital).

1951
11

Moved
Eunice, Lee, New Mexico, USA

1951-52
11-12

6th Grade
7 Jan 1951 • Eunice, Lee, New Mexico, USA

1953
13

Birth of half-sister
22 Sep 1953 • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1953-54
13

8th grade class secretary
Eunice • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1954-58
14-18

Eunice High school
Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Sextette 4; Operetta 1, 2, 3, 4; Junior Sextette 2; Christmas Program 1, 2, 3, 4; Special Voice 1, 2, 3, 4; Junior Play; Senior Play; Dramatics Club 4; Class Officer 2; Student Council 1, 4; National Honor Society 3, 4; Honor Study Hall 1, 2, 3; Spanish Club 1, 2; Science Club 1; Tennis 1, 2; Annual Staff 4; Who’s Who 4; Halloween Attendant 3; Football Attendant 1.

1954
14

Freshman Class Vice President
Eunice Highschool • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1954
14

Freshman Homecoming Princess
Eunice Highschool • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1955
15

Junior Sextet (she was a sophomore)
1955 • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1957
17

Augusta Applegate in junior play “Down to Earth”
1956 or ’57 • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1957
17

Honor: New Mexico Girls State delegate. Statement on her Girls State booklet: “The security of my rights, privileges and responsibilities as an American citizen depends on me.”
Summer 1957

1957-’58
17-18

Honor: Rainbow Girls: Worthy Girl (leader) of the youth service organization.
Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA

1957-’58
17-18

Honor: Senior Sextet
Also played Camille in high school musical “The Golden Trails”
Senior play as Balinda Pryde in “Ramshackle Inn”
All State Choir

1958
18

Graduation
Jun 1958 • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA
Eunice High School

1958
18

College
Sep 1958 • Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico, USA
Attends Eastern New Mexico University on VA Scholarship – GI Bill as a surviving dependent of a serviceman. She was a drama major.

1960
20

Residency
Jan 1960 • Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Works as a waitress. She lives alone upstairs of the café where she works until daughter is born.

Birth of daughter Engela Beatrice Tillinghast(1960–)
Mar 1960 • Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, USA

Moves back to parents’ home
Mar 1960 • Eunice, Lee, New Mexico, USA

Returns to Eastern New Mexico University. Changed to secretarial studies.
Sep 1960 • Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico, USA

1961
21

Starts dating Albert Tillinghast Jr (1933–1996) whom she had briefly met outside a store right before Christmas break. He used his teaching connections to get her home address from the school and sent her Christmas card. When she returned in January for the Spring semester, they started dating.
Jan 1961 • Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico, USA

1961
21

Marriage
3 June 1961 • Eunice, Lea, New Mexico, USA
Albert Tillinghast Jr (1933–1996)

1961
21

Moves to Dallas, Texas, USA with accountant husband Albert Tillinghast, Jr. who worked for Arthur Anderson Co.

1962
22

Early in her pregnancy her gynecologists’ sent her to have a treatment for a heat rash on her thighs. It was a radiation treatment, and it was the cause of her daughter’s cataracts.
Birth of daughter Elaina (1962–)
1962 • Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

1965
25

Birth of son Albert Tillinghast III(1965–)
1965 • Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

1968
28

Story: Evelyn said that she was doing fine on her birth control pills, but the same gynecologists’ who prescribed the radiation treatments, switched her to another brand of birth control pills that had varying amounts of hormones. She believed he put her on a clinical trial. It is possible because during that time clinical trials did not have to have signed informed consent. But she also mentioned she was at one time on C-Quens. C-Quens brand oral contraceptive was approved in 1965, and it did have different hormones in the cycle. The pills were withdrawn from the market in October, 1970. She said her gynecologists’ later went into experimental medicine.

She’d gone to the doctor for pain and swelling in her leg, she was immediately hospitalized for deep vein thrombosis (blood clot). They tried breaking the clot up with drugs, but after a large clot landed in her lungs and she almost died, they decided to do a vena cava clamp instead. She told her doctors that she woke up during surgery, but they didn’t believe her until she recounted their jokes and discussions. She spent weeks in Methodist Hospital in Dallas. Like many hospitals of the time, they did not allow her children ages 3-8 to visit they whole time she was there.
1968 • Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

1985
45

Husband, Albert has a heart attack.

1994
54

Husband Albert diagnosed with lung cancer.

1996
56

Death of husband Albert Tillinghast Jr(1933–1996)
13 Jul 1996 • Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

1997
57

Death of mother Lake Eria Taylor(1920–1997)
27 Sep 1997 • Silver Star, Madison, Montana, USA

2011
71

Death
23 August 2011 • Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA