100 - Lee Davis Stone - Memorial Park Cemetery - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 36.195 W 097° 29.647
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Lee Davis Stone was born the same year that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Waymark Code: WMDETB
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/05/2012
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The final resting place of Lee Davis Stone is at the southwest corner of Memorial Park Cemetery. Entrance into Memorial Park is only on the west side, off of Kelley Ave.
An elongated brown stone marks the burial location for these two members of the Stone family. Stone is in big letters in the middle, with the two names in the upper left and right corners. Flowers are etched into the bottom two corners.
Text on headstone:
Stone
Lee Davis
1863-1963
Dona A.
1876-1962
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lee's lifetime:
1863: President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving (United States) day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November
1873: At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express)
1883: The Orient Express begins operation
1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey
1903: Morris and Rose Mitchom introduce the first teddy bear in America
1913: Death Valley, California hits 134 °F
1923: Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, NY
1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment
1943: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time
1953: 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth
1963: Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 28
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