100 - Ellen W. Stockton - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Ellen Stockton was born the same year that Yellow fever in the Mississippi Valley killed over 13,000.
Waymark Code: WMGN5X
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2013
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The final resting place of Ellen Stockton is near the center of Rose Hill Burial Park, east of the lake and at the west side of section 10.
Text on marker:
Ellen W. Stockton
Feb. 25, 1878
May 11, 1978
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ellen's time on earth:
1878: The U.S. territory of New Mexico is linked to the rest of the nation by railroad for the first time, as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates a newly completed line through the Raton Pass.
1888: Casey at the Bat is published.
1898: The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with a landing at Guánica Bay.
1908: Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
1918: Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody, for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.
1928: Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to be generally distributed.
1938: A nylon bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn.
1948: The stock car racing series Nascar is founded by Bill France Sr. and William France, Sr.
1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1968: My Lai massacre: American troops kill scores of civilians. The story will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.
1978: Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 10
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