100 - B. Ellen Denison Phillips - Farmington City Cemetery - Farmington, UT
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Centenarian B. Ellen Phillips is laid to rest at the far southeast corner of Farmington City Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM11NHT
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2019
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The final resting place of centenarian B. Ellen Denison Phillips is at Farmington City Cemetery, at the southeast corner. She shares a double, upright marker with her spouse Ardelle William. Barbara Ellen was born in Manti, UT and was a schoolteacher for a few years.
Text on marker:
Phillips
B. Ellen Denison
June 3, 1895
February 14, 1996
Ardelle William
November 25, 1895
April 16, 1962
Married July 21, 1920
Link to Barbara Ellen's obituary: (
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Some historical events that occurred during Ellen's time on earth:
1895: Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta compromise speech
1905: Albert Einstein completes his doctoral dissertation
1915: While working as a cook at New York's Sloane Hospital for Women under an assumed name, "Typhoid Mary" infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life on March 27.
1925: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota.
1935: The flying boat China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California, to deliver the first airmail
1945: The Tenth United States Army lands on Okinawa.
1955: The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. and others lead 3,200 civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1985: Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is released on December 4, 1991.
1996: An amateur astronomer from southern Japan discovers Comet Hyakutake; it will pass very close to the Earth in March.