101 - Henry E. Groves - Kolb Cemetery - Spencer, OK
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Henry Groves was born the same year that the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (which completely and permanently abolishes slavery) was declared ratified by three-quarters of the states.
Waymark Code: WMG30W
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2013
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The final resting place of Henry E. Groves is at the far southeast corner of Kolb Cemetery, just a few feet from the road. His is a small upright marker with flowers etched into the top left and bottom right corners.
His headstone reads:
Father
Henry E. Groves
Aug. 23, 1865
Oct. 22, 1966
At Rest
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Henry's time on earth:
1865: Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier to be executed for war crimes.
1875: The first organized indoor game of ice hockey is played between two teams at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Canada.
1885: LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster
1895: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
1905: Pablo Valencia gets lost in the Sonoran Desert with no water.
1915: The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1925: Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
1935: Persia is renamed Iran.
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to an unprecedented fourth term as President of the United States. No president before, or since, has ever reached a third term in office.
1955: The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
1966: Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War.
Location of Headstone: Kolb Cemetery
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