100 - Emma Gertrude Organ - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.794 W 097° 32.459
14S E 632278 N 3932788
Emma Organ was born two months before the Oklahoma Land Run: At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000.
Waymark Code: WMETHP
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2012
Views: 4
The final resting place of Emma Organ is at the far south side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the southwest corner of section 14. Her light-grey headstone is only a few feet north of the road, with the family monument just north of that, next to a tree. The headstone shows Emma's name and years of birth/death etched into a bible with flowers at two corners.
Text on marker:
Emma Gertrude Organ
Feb. 18, 1889
Oct. 25, 1989
Loving Memory
Text on Family monument:
Organ
At Peace
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Emma's time on earth:
1889: President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states
1899: The United States takes possession of Wake Island
1909: The city of Tel Aviv (then known as Ahuzat Bayit) is founded
1919: The Seattle General Strike begins. Over 65,000 workers strike
1929: Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty
1939: Billie Holiday records "Strange Fruit", the first anti-lynching song
1949: Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed
1959: Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS
1969: A huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California closes the city's harbor
1979: In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty
1989: The first crack in the Iron Curtain: Hungary dismantles 150 miles (240 km) of barbed wire fencing along the border with Austria
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 14
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