102 - Juliette Powell - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Juliette Powell was born the same year that U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMERJA
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2012
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The final resting place of Juliette Powell is near the center of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the far west side of section 4. Hers is a flat, dark grey headstone located just east of the road.
Text on marker:
Juliette Powell
Nov. 13, 1863
Dec. 18, 1965
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Juliette's time on earth:
1863: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison, and return safely to the South
1873: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River (only 1 man on each side is killed)
1883: Oxygen is liquefied for the very first time
1893: Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago
1903: With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia
1913: Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as the 28th President of the United States
1923: The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland)
1933: Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed (it opens March 22)
1943: Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time
1953: Transsexual Christine Jorgenson returns to New York after successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark
1965:
In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot (190 m)-tall inverted catenary steel Gateway Arch is completed.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 4
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