100 - Mattie Lanham - Joy Cemetery - Joy, TX
N 33° 34.419 W 098° 13.050
14S E 572622 N 3715158
Mattie Lanham was born in 1901, the year that Major League Baseball added a second league, the American League.
Waymark Code: WMHHYV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/14/2013
Views: 1
Mattie's modern, gray, granite headstone lists her name and relevant dates, with an inscription of "Loving Aunt" and floral decoration.
Mattie Lanham
Sept. 7, 1901
May 15, 2002
Significant events in her lifetime include:
1901 - Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.
1921 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
1931 - Bela Lugosi becomes a film star with the release of "Dracula."
1941 - December 7 becomes a "date which will live in infamy."
1951 - U.S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
1961 - The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba fails.
1971 - Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars in Ontario, California.
1981 - Both Ronald Reagan and John Paul II are targets of assassination attempts.
1991 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
2001 - The Taliban in Afghanistan destroys the Bamiyan Buddhas, an event that is lost in the shadow of 9/11.
2002 - Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.
Location of Headstone: Joy Cemetery, Joy, TX
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