102 - Frances McIntosh - Thompson Falls, Montana - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

The Thompson Falls Cemetery is located in Sanders County and there are approximately 500 gravesites. The cemetery was established in the early 1950s.

The Thompson Falls Cemetery is also known as the VFW Cemetery.

Frances McIntosh was born on June 29, 1885 and she died on January 21, 1988 at the age of 102. Her parents were Eugene and Mary Livermore.

Some major events that took place during Frances McIntosh's lifetime including the arrival of the Statue of Liberty, the surrender of Geronimo, beginning of the Oklahoma Land Rush, Women have the right to vote, First Rose Bowl parade, 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 , the assignation of President Kennedy Through her lifetime some of the most interesting events took place.

1885 - Frances Livermore - McIntosh was born to parents Eugene and Mary Livermore
1885 - June 17 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York harbor
1886 - September 4 - At Fort Bowie in SW Arizona, Geronimo surrenders
1887 - February 2 - The first Groundhog Day
1888 - October 8 - Work begins on the first motion picture camera at Thomas Edison's laboratory
1890 - Oklahoma Land Rush
1890 - December 29 - The Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1891 - March 3 - Congress of the United States passes the International Copyright Act
1892 -January 1 - Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, opens as the main east coast immigration center
1893 - May 5 - The New York Stock Exchange collapses
1894 - April 14 - The first public showing of Thomas Edison's kinescope motion picture is held
1895 - November 5 - The first United States patent for the automobile
1896 - April 6-15 - The first modern Olympic Games is held in Athens, Greece.
1897 - July 17 - Klondike Gold Rush begins with the arrival of the first prospectors in Seattle.
1899 - March 2 - Mount Rainier National Park is established in Washington State
1901 - President William McKinley is assassinated
1902 - January 1 - The first Rose Bowl is held
1903 - December 17 - Inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright succeed in the first plane flight
1904 - November 24 - The first successful field tractor is invented by American Benjamin Holt
1906 - The San Francisco earthquake
1908 - January 1 - The tradition of dropping a ball in New York's Times Square to signal of the New Year is inaugurated
1910 - February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
1914 - July 11 - Babe Ruth makes his major league debut
1914 - World War I Begins in Europe
1915 - January 25 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson conduct the first telephone conversation between New York and San Francisco
1916 - August 25 - The National Park Service is officially created
1918 - World War I Ends
1919 - National Prohibition of alcoholic beverages
1920 - 19th Amendment: Giving all American Women the Right to Vote
1921 - September 7-8 - The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City
1923 - March 2 - Time Magazine is published for the first time.
1924 - June 2 - All Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress
1928 - May 15 - The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film
1929 - Stock Market Crashes
1930s - The Great Depression
1931 - March 3 - The Star-Spangled Banner become the national anthem
1935 - August 14 - The Social Security Act is passed
1938 - October 30 - A nationwide scare develops when Orson Welles broadcasts his War of the Worlds radio drama and news bulletins stating that a Martian invasion had begun on earth
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
1947 - Jackie Robinson: First African American Major League Baseball Player
1950 - January 17 - The Brinks robbery in Boston occurred stealing $2.8 million from an armored car
1955 - U.S. Supreme Court Orders Desegregation of Schools
1955 - July 17 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California
1953 - December 30 - The first color televisions go on sale.
1958 - First Xerox Machine
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii Become States
1960 - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Begin in South: Begins “Civil Rights Movement”
1962 - February 20 - Lt. Colonel John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut in orbit in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1963 - November 2 - President John F. Kennedy Assassinated
1963 - Oswald Shot by Jack Ruby
1965 - First Heart Transplant
1965 - Thurgood Marshall becomes First African American on U.S. Supreme Court
1966 - July 1 - Medicare, the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins.
1969 - 400,000 People Attend “Woodstock”
1969 - July 20 - The Apollo program: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
1970 - April 22 - The first Earth Day celebration is held
1971 - Constitutional Amendment 26: Lowering Voting Age to 18
1973 - Skylab, USA's first space station launched
1973 - Vietnam War Ends
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate
1975 - January 6 - The television show Wheel of Fortune premiers
1977 - May 25 - The movie Star Wars premiers
1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1980 - May 18 - The Mt. St. Helens volcano, in Washington State, erupts,
1981 - Trout Creek was proclaimed "Huckleberry Capital of Montana"
1981 - August 12 - IBM introduces the IBM-PC personal computer
1982 - November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated
1985 - November 20 - The first version of the Windows operating system for computers is released.
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger accident
1988 - Sadly, Frances McIntosh passed away at the age of 102

Location of Headstone: Thompson Falls Cemetery - VFW

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