103 - Albina F. Scroggs - Evergreen Cemetery - Colville, Washington
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The final resting place of Albina F. "Pat" (Sparks) Scroggs is in the Evergreen Cemetery located north of Colville on Aladdin Road.
Waymark Code: WMJMZP
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2013
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Text on marker:
Albina Scroogs
1870 - 1973
Albina (Sparks) Scroggs was born March 20th, 1870 in Missouri. She passed away, August, 1973 in Colville, Washington at the age of 103. She was fondly called "Pat" by friends and family.
She was the daughter of:
Josiah Paron Sparks (1840 - 1907)
Candace Elizabeth Gatton Sparks (1843 - 1917)
She married John Scroggs
John Milas Scroggs (1864 - 1942)
She and John had two Children:
Harriet M. Scroggs (1884 - 1978)
Darcy Arden Scroggs (1890 - 1975)
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Albina (Sparks) Scroggs' lifetime:
1870 - March 20th, Albina F. (Sparks) Scroggs was born in Missouri
1871 - KKK Members Convicted By Federal Courts in Mississippi
1875 - Civil Rights Act Passed
1883 - Civil Rights Act of 1875 Declared Unconstitutional
1889 - Washington Admitted as State
1890 - Battle of Wounded Knee – 200 Native American Women and Children Massacred By U.S. Troops
1899 - Southern States Pass Laws to Disenfranchise Blacks
1901 - First Nobel Peace Prize was held
1903 - Wright Brothers First Flight
1906 - San Francisco Earthquake
1908 - Ford introduces Model T
1917 - U.S. Enters World War I
1918 - World War I Ends
1920 - Amendment 19th Ratified: American Women: Right to Vote
1929 - Stock Market Crashes
1932 - Franklin Roosevelt Elected President
1937 - German Airship Hindenburg Burns in New Jersey
1939 - World War II Starts in Europe with German invasion of Poland
1941 - Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor – U.S. Declares War on Japan
1945 - Atomic Bombs Dropped
1945 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Dies
1950 - Korean War Starts
1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott; Martin Luther King Becomes Prominent
1955 - U.S. Supreme Court Orders Immediate Desegregation of Schools
1957 - Congress Passes Civil Rights Act Prohibiting Discrimination in Public.
1958 - Soviets Launch “Sputnik”
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii Become States
1960 - John F. Kennedy Elected President
1960 - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Begin in the South
1963 - President John F. Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
1965 - First Heart Transplant
1965 - Thurgood Marshall becomes First African American on U.S. Supreme Court
1969 - “Woodstock” 400,000 Attend
1973 - Skylab, USA's first space station launched
1973 - Albina F. Scroggs Dies at the age of 103 in Colville, Washington
Location of Headstone: Evergreen Cemetery
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