100 - Emily L. Dunwell - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Max and 99
N 35° 31.865 W 097° 32.219
14S E 632639 N 3932924
Emily Dunwell was born the same year that The Ladies Home Journal was published for the first time.
Waymark Code: WMGA21
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/04/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
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The final resting place of Emily Dunwell is at the southeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the north end of section 5. Hers is a flat marker with the following text:

Wife
Emily L. Dunwell
Sept. 3, 1883 Jan. 18, 1984


Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Emily's time on earth:

1883: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-8" makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture.
1893: The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
1903: Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years
1913: The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
1923: The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its members.
1933: The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
1943: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).
1953: President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1963: ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S
1973: The first handheld cellular phone call is made by Martin Cooper in New York City.
1984: The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 5

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