103 - Delby J. Smith - Trout Creek, Montana
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N 47° 46.101 W 115° 30.519
11T E 611743 N 5291630
The Whitepine Cemetery is located on Hwy 200, you can see it from the highway. 10 km south of Trout Creek and 25 km north of Thompson Falls.
Waymark Code: WMM195
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member woolsox
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The Whitepine Cemetery is located in Sanders County. It is small community cemetery with approximately 850 interments. It was established in the early 1900s and is still active.

Population of Trout Creek in the 1980s was less than 500.

Some major events that took place during Delby J. Smith's lifetime including the arrival of the Statue of Liberty, the surrender of Geronimo, first motion picture and automobile, Klondike Gold Rush, first appearance of Mickey Mouse, the Great Depression, women earn the right to vote, WW I, WW II, Korean War, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Atomic Bombs Dropped, natural disasters, beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Prohibition , Woodstock, Berlin Wall crumbles, the assignation of President Kennedy, space program disasters, World Trade attack on 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama, first African American to become president. Through his lifetime was some of the most interesting events that ever took place.

1883 - Delby J. Smith was born
1883 - November 18 - Five standard time zones are established
1885 - June 17 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York harbor
1888 - October 8 - Work begins on the first motion picture camera
1890 - December 29 - The Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1893 - May 5 - The New York Stock Exchange collapses
1895 - November 5 - The first United States patent for the automobile
1896 - April 6-15 - The first modern day Olympic Games is held in Athens
1897 - July 17 - Klondike Gold Rush begins
1901 - President William McKinley is assassinated
1914 - July 11 - Babe Ruth makes his major league debut
1914 - World War I Begins in Europe
1918 - World War I Ends
1919 - National Prohibition of alcoholic beverages
1920 - 19th Amendment: Giving all American Women the Right to Vote
1924 - June 2 - All Indians are designated citizens
1930s - The Great Depression
1931 - March 3 - The Star-Spangled Banner become the national anthem
1935 - August 14 - The Social Security Act is passed
1939 - World War II
1941 - Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor – U.S. Declares War on Japan
1945 - Atomic Bombs Dropped
1945 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Dies
1946 - First televisions were sold
1955 - U.S. Supreme Court Orders Desegregation of Schools
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii Become States
1960 - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins begins “Civil Rights Movement”
1962 - February 20 - Lt. Colonel John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut in orbit the Earth
1963 - November 2 - President John F. Kennedy Assassinated
1965 - First Heart Transplant
1969 - July 20 - Neil Armstrong becomes the 1st man to walk on the moon
1973 - Skylab, USA's first space station launched
1973 - Vietnam War Ends
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger accident
1986 - Sadly, Delby J. Smith passed away at the age of 103.
Location of Headstone: Whitepine Cemetery

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