100 - Lydia C. Wood - Fairlawn Cemetery - Oklahoma City, OK
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Lydia Wood was born the same year that David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia–Zimbabwe.
Waymark Code: WMG6RA
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2013
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The final resting place of Lydia Wood is at the very far east side of Fairlawn Cemetery, just north of the entrance. Hers is a horizontal light-grey marker, next to a very large family monument with the name "Wood".
Text on headstone:
Lydia C. Wood
Oct. 25, 1855
Nov. 4, 1955
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lydia's time on earth:
1855: Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins with events leading to the Wakarusa War between antislavery and proslavery forces.
1865: The Confederate States of America agrees to the use of African American troops
1875: Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1885: The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
1895: 3,000 Armenians are burned alive in Urfa by Ottoman troops. 1905: The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.
1915: The controversial film, The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles, California.
1925: Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
1935: Bruno Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.
1955: Disneyland opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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