101 - Annie T. Masters - Elkton, FL
N 29° 46.680 W 081° 28.133
17R E 454676 N 3294278
Centenarian Annie T. Masters was born in 1895 and died in 1996. Her grave is located in the Saint Ambrose Cemetery in Elkton, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMP286
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 06/14/2015
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Although her headstone only provides the years of her birth and death, the actual dates are available on the FindAGrave website (
visit link) .
Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1895):
* February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
* March 30 – Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine in Germany.
* September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0).
* November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1996):
* January 7 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia receives a record 30.7 inches (78 cm) of snowfall, New York City's public schools close for the first time in 18 years and the federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for days.
* March 20 – The British Government announces that Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been likely transmitted to people.
* April 3 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
* June 19 – Boris Yeltsin emerges as the winner in Russia's first round of presidential elections.
* July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland.