102 - Delilah Ratcliff - Nowata, OK USA - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Many of the grave markers in this cemetery are broken, and a lot of them in that state are heaped together. The grave marker for Delilah Ratcliff is shared by Moses and Catherine Whitmire (or vice versa), the latter probably being a married daughter of Delilah. This grave marker for three people is laying on one side. The side that details Delilah's information is on one side partially buried into the soil. I used a nearby branch to scape away some of the soil, but it would take a shovel (or a tractor to lift up the marker) to reveal more. Note that the FindAGrave contributor for Delilah Ratcliff (who misspelled her last name as Ratliff!) used a technique to bring out the inscription.

Oddly enough, though the inscription clearly states BORN 1796 and DIED 1900, it also clearly says AGED 102 YRS!! Simple arithmetic tells you that she would have lived either 103 or 104 years given those birth and death dates. But I'm guessing that the age is correct and that the folks who commissioned the marker weren't certain of the birthdate (or less likely, the death date).

I took a high resolution photo of the marker, rotated it right, and then cropped it to make it a little easier to read the portion of inscription that is above ground:

Location of Headstone: Cemetery

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Date Logged Log   12/27/2016 MountainWoods visited it