103 - Martha B. Wright - Tempe, Arizona
N 33° 24.325 W 111° 58.494
12S E 409345 N 3696657
One of many centenarians in this historic cemetery. She is buried beside her husband, whom she outlived by 24 years.
Waymark Code: WMBJA4
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2011
Views: 5
Wright
Martha B.
1866 - 1969
Events that occurred in her birth year:
- Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
- President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
- Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
- Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
- Transatlantic cable laid-President Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
- President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
- Last Navajo chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate
Events that occurred in her death year:
- Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England
- Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
- Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
- "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
- 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT
- Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
- Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
- Wendy's Hamburgers opens
Location of Headstone: cemetery
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