101 - Zeipha Katherine Pierce - Rough Creek Cemetery - Hood County, TX
N 32° 24.040 W 097° 49.341
14S E 610752 N 3585457
Zeipha Katherine Pierce was born in 1913, the year that the first highway to cross the United States -- the Lincoln Highway -- was dedicated.
Waymark Code: WMZM65
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/29/2018
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Ms. Pierce's flat, gray, granite headstone has an angel in supplication in the upper left corner, and the text is:
In Loving Memory
Zeipha Katherine
Pierce
Mar. 28, 1913
May 6, 2014
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Significant events that occurred in her lifetime include:
1913 - Henry Ford's first moving assembly line kicks into gear in Highland Park, MI.
1923 - President Warren G. Harding dies of a heart attack, and won't face the music for the scandals from his administration.
1933 - Prohibition is repealed in the United States, ending an unsuccessful "war" on substances.
1943 - Members of the White Rose non-violent resistance group are executed by the Nazi regime in Germany.
1953 - Josef Stalin dies before he is able to carry out another purge, based on a "doctors plot."
1963 - The Coca-Cola Company introduces a diet soft drink, TaB. Watch for a nod to it in "Back to the Future" some years later.
1973 - The World Trade Center is dedicated in New York, as construction on the CN Tower begins in Toronto.
1983 - "A Christmas Story" is released. You'll shoot your eye out.
1993 - The first World Trade Center bombing occurs in February, killing six.
2003 - Saddam Hussein is flushed from a hole near his native Tikrit.
2013 - Pope Francis is elected after Pope Benedict XVI resigns.
2014 - Popes John XXIII and John Paul II become saints.
Location of Headstone: Rough Creek Cemetery
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