Her headstone reads:
Virginia Austin Drew
Died January 20, 1961
Age 101
R.I.P.
Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1860):
* February 26 – White settlers massacre a band of Wiyot Indians on Indian Island near Eureka, California. At least 60 women, children and elders are killed. Bret Harte, newspaper reporter in Arcata, reports the news to newspapers in San Francisco.
* April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California with riders carrying a small bible.
* May 18 – Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
* November 6 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
* December 1 – December 1 – Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
* December 20 – South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States Union.
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Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1961):
* January 3 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. Cuba–United States relations are later restored in 2015.
* January 20 – John F. Kennedy succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States of America.
* February 9 – The Beatles perform for the first time at The Cavern Club.
* March 1 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
* March 29 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
* April 12 - Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once.
* May 25 – Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
* November 10 – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is first published.
* November 18 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
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