103 - Anabel Greene L'Hommedieu - Hauppauge Rural Cemetery, Hauppauge, New York
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Centenarian Anabel Greene L'Hommedieu was born on March 25,1871 and lived to the age of one hundred and three.
Waymark Code: WM19W35
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2024
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Max and 99
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Cenotaph
Actual burial of Anabel Greene L'Hommedieu is in Forest Lawn, Cypress, California. Memorial 100238134.
Inscription:
Marker has 4 sides
Side one: South Side
R.W. Delbert Greene
October 25, 1861
March 7, 1936

Bertha V. Greene
March 27, 1866
July 25, 1968
____________
Anabel Greene L'Hommedieu
Wife of Reuben
March 25, 1871
July 13, 1974
Interred at Cypress, Calif.

Bottom Pedestal
GREENE

Side two: East Side
In Memory of Richard W. L'Hommedieu
Born Feb. 15, 1869
Died Feb. 5, 1906
_____________
Capt.Co.C.139th Rec T
N.Y. VOLS
_____________
His Wife
Sarah Violette Howell,
Born March 3, 1843
Died June 8, 1913

Bottom Pedestal
L'Hommedieu

Side three: North Side
Reuben F. L'Hommedieu
March 21, 1870
Feb. 19, 1925

Bottom Pedestal
L'Hommedieu

Side four: West Side
William Bowman
March 18,1886
April 11,1962
_____________
His Wife
Laurel Estelle
Greene
Jan.15,1893
April 3,1968
_____________
Wayne Richard
Bowman
Dec 30,1952
March 14,2008
Buried Milford
Connecticut

Bottom Pedestal
Bowman

Anabel Green L'Hommedieu was born on March 25,1871, in that year Ulysses S. Grant was president,the first ever photographs of Yellowstone National Park are taken.
1876 - Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas, serving under Marshal Larry Deger.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was dedicated by U.S. President Grover Cleveland
1891 - The Music Hall in New York, known as Carnegie Hall has its grand opening and first public performance with Tchaikovsky.
1898 - the U.S. enters its first global conflict, the Spanish-American War
1900 - The Wright brothers began their first manned glider experimental flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1903 - The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents.
1910 - First commercial flight of the Zeppelin.
1912 - RMS Titanic sank.
1914 - World War I (1914-1918)
1915 - The first U.S. Coast to Coast long distance telephone call.
1919 - Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment.
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight.
1930 - The Great Depression
1931 - Empire State Building completed.
- Construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan begins.
1933 - 21st Amendment ends prohibition
1939 - World War II
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
1945 - End of World War II
1950 - Korean War begins when North Korea invade South Korea.(1950-1953)
1955 - Start of Vietnam War.
1958 - The USSR orbits Sputnik 1 beginning the Space Race.
1961 - Alan Shepard is the first American astronaut to reach space, in a sub-orbital flight.
1963 - "I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech in Washington, DC.
1963 - Assassination of President Kennedy.
1969 - Moon Landing, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr., become the first men to land on the moon.
1974 - Nixon Resignation.
Location of Headstone: Hauppauge Rural Cemetery

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