107 - Lelia W. Corbett - Fairlawn Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Lelia W. Corbett was born the same year that the Navajo began their long march home.
Waymark Code: WMGFRQ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2013
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The final resting place of Lelia Corbett is at the far northeast corner of Fairlawn Cemetery, at the west side of the section. Hers is a horizontal marker with a flower stem etched into the two top corners.
Text on headstone:
Mother
Lelia W. Corbett
1868 - 1975
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lelia's time on earth:
1868: U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.
1878: The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison
1888: Casey at the Bat is published.
1898: The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with a landing at Guánica Bay.
1908: The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner just invented by James M. Spangler.
1918: Mammy Lou becomes the oldest person to ever star in a film, at age 114.
1928: The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.
1938: Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
1948: Columbia Records introduced it's long playing 33 1/3 rpm phonograph format
1958: Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of the 3 project Able space probes, becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.
1968: The Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education. This is, in effect, the first statewide teachers' strike in the United States.
1975: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces from North Vietnam take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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