100 - Mary Jane Parker - Rochelle, FL
N 29° 33.614 W 082° 15.454
17R E 378174 N 3270716
Centenarian Mary Jane Parker was born in 1860 and died in 1960. Her grave is located in the Oak Ridge Cemetery in community of Rochelle, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMKDNG
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2014
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1860):
* February 26 – White settlers massacre a band of Wiyot Indians on Indian Island near Eureka, California. At least 60 women, children and elders are killed. Bret Harte, newspaper reporter in Arcata, reports the news to newspapers in San Francisco.
* April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.
* November 6 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
* December 1 – Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1960):
* February 1 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
* February 9 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Southern California.
* March 3 - Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on duty for 2 years.
* May 6 – President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
* September 26 – The leading candidates for President of the United States, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, make the first televised debate.
* September 30 – Television cartoon sitcom The Flintstones debuts on ABC.
* November 8 – United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve as President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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