100 - Mary Lona Smith - Memorial Park Cemetery - Oklahoma City, OK
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Mary Lona Smith was born the same year that Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
Waymark Code: WMDFC2
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2012
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The final resting place of Mary Lona Smith is at the northeast corner of Memorial Park Cemetery. Entry into Memorial Park is only on the west side, off of Kelley Ave.
Hers is a small flat stone under the shade of a large tree. She is laid to rest next to her spouse:
Father
Joesph H. Smith
January 21, 1880
November 3, 1957
Text on headstone:
Mother
Mary Lona Smith
April 13, 1886
November 29, 1986
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Mary's lifetime:
1886: A general strike begins in the United States, which escalates into the Haymarket Riot and eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
1896: Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history
1906: The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England
1916: Grigori Rasputin is murdered by two Romanov family members
1926: Twelve blue cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded
1936: Peter and the Wolf, a Russian fairy tale of Sergei Prokofiev's composition, debuts at the Nezlobin Theater in Moscow, Soviet Union
1946: Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution
1956: 96 U.S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) that desegregated public education
1966: Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel
1976: United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
1986: The Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property"
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 51
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