102 - Mary Ellen Scussel - Hilliard, FL
N 30° 42.018 W 081° 55.120
17R E 412023 N 3396748
Centenarian Mary Ellen Scussel was born in 1893 and died in 1996. Her grave is located in St. Theresa Cemetery in Hilliard, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMQQHP
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/19/2016
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According to her headstone and the Find a Grave (
visit link) website, she was born in Nassau County, Florida, on June 23, 1893, and died in Duval County, Florida, on June 1, 1996. She was married to Onorato Fortunato Scussel (
visit link) (1894-1951).
Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1893):
* January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani.
* February 1 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
* May 10 – The United States Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.
* June 7 – Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience in India.
* June 20 – Lizzie Borden acquitted of murdering her parents.
* July 25 – Completion of the Corinth Canal in Greece.
* November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
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.