100 - Jane C. Blakely - Jacksonville, FL
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Marine Biologist
N 30° 22.273 W 081° 38.662
17R E 438084 N 3360096
Centenarian Jane C. Blakely was born in 1836, and died in 1936. Her grave is located in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMJNDQ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member lenron
Views: 2

Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1836):

February 23 – The Alamo begins with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army under Santa Anna.
February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
March 6 – The Battle of the Alamo ends; 182 Anglo-Saxon settler soldiers die in a struggle with approximately 5,000 Mexican soldiers.
June 15 – Arkansas is the 25th state admitted into the United States of America.
December 7 – United States presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.

Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1936):

January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 17 The first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in U.S. newspapers.
March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping, the kidnap and killing of the infant Charles Lindbergh III in 1932, is executed by electrocution in New Jersey.
May 30 – Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is first published.
September 7 – The last known thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon. Farmers support Roosevelt.
December 1 – Hitler makes it mandatory that boys 10 to 18 in Germany join the Hitler Youth (Hitler-Jugend) paramilitary organization.

Location of Headstone: Cemetery

Visit Instructions:
Upload a photo of the headstone and, if possible, the surrounding area.(nothing should be placed on grave stone) If you can provide more information about the waymark than what is currently provided, please include that information in your visit log.
Search for...
Geocaching.com Google Map
Google Maps
MapQuest
Bing Maps
Nearest Waymarks
Nearest Headstones of Centenarians
Nearest Geocaches
Create a scavenger hunt using this waymark as the center point
Recent Visits/Logs:
There are no logs for this waymark yet.