-
Use Cases
-
Resources
-
Pricing
1920
% complete
Henrietta Lacks is born to Eliza and John Randall Pleasant in Roanoke, Virginia.
1941
% complete
Day was the father of her first two children and was Henrietta's first cousin. Being first cousins cause their children to be some what deaf.
1941
% complete
Henrietta and her two children are moved to Turners Station, which is now in Maryland, because of her husbands work.
1951
% complete
Henrietta dies eight months after she was first admited, at the age of 31.
1951
% complete
Henrietta's doctor, Dr. George Gey, cuts off a piece of Henrietta's Cervix to examine without her consent.
January 29, 1951
% complete
Henrietta is addmitted to John Hopkins, claming she feels a knot in her stomach
1924
% complete
When Henrietta's mother dies, she is given to her grandfather, Tommy Lacks
1935
% complete
Lawrence was born when Henrietta was just 14 years old
1939
% complete
Henrietta loved her daughter, even though she was different. She would not talk, only making chirping sounds.
1947
% complete
Henrietta's third child is named David "Sonny" Jr
1949
% complete
Her daughter Deborah is born.
1949
% complete
Henrietta is forced to admit her daughter, Elsie, into the hospital for the Negro insane, and is devastated.
1950
% complete
Henrietta gives birth to her last child, Joseph, who later changes his name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman when he converts to Islam