103 - Rose Carnes Dickey - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 36.429 W 097° 29.575
14S E 636505 N 3941422
Rose Carnes Dickey was born in 1872, the same year that Yellowstone National Park is established as the first world's first national park
Waymark Code: WMCXZE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2011
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The headstone of Rose Carnes Dickey is located at the northwest corner of Memorial Park Cemetery. Entrance to the cemetery is only on the west side, off of Kelley.
Rose's marker is a flat stone with flowers engraved on two sides, and is in front of a family monument with the name Dickey.
Text on headstone:
Wife
Rose Carnes Dickey
1872 - 1975
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Rose's 103 years on earth:
1872: The magazine Popular Science is first published in the U.S.
1882: Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford
1892: Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States
1902: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War
1912: The British inquiry into the Titanic disaster concludes
1922: The Irish Civil War begins
1932: Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey
1942: The Bataan Peninsula falls and the Bataan Death March began
1952: Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom
1962: Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA basketball game
1975: Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth II
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 8
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