Her headstone simply lists her name and her birth and death years. However, the ancientfaces website (
visit link) provides a few more details:
"Cora Stays (1875 - 1978) was born on October 31, 1875. She was born into the Stays family.
She died in October 1978 at age 102.
Cora Stays's last known residence is at Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, Florida."
Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1875):
* February 21 – Jeanne Calment is born in Arles, France. She would go on to become the world's oldest verified person to have ever lived, reaching an age of 122 years and 164 days, before passing away on August 4, 1997 of natural causes.
* March 1 – The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in public accommodations and jury duty.
* June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of college football: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* August 25 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.
* November 9 – American Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1978):
* January 14–January 15 – The body of former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, following his death from cancer.
* January 25–January 27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70.
* January 28 – Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.
* February 5–February 7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 and causing over US$520 million in damage.
* February 15 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida.
* February 16 - The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.
* March 22 – Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
* April 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Annie Hall winning Best Picture.
* May 20 – Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.
* June 12 – Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 365 years in prison.
* June 19 - Garfield, which eventually becomes the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
* July 25 - Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK.
* October 14 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law which allows homebrewing of beer in the United States.
* November 18 – Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.
* December 22 - Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men, is arrested.