101 - Fannie Bondurant - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Fannie Bondurant was born the same year that Polygamy was made a felony by the Edmunds Act as passed by the U.S. Congress.
Waymark Code: WMGPGX
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2013
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The final resting place of Fannie Bondurant is at the south end of Rose Hill Burial Park, east of the lake and at the far south side of section 10. Hers is a horizontal marker, near a large family monument with the name "Bondurant".
Text on marker:
Fannie
1882 - 1983
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Fannie's time on earth:
1882: Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford.
1892: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1902: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
1912: The Girl Scouts is founded by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia
1922: Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
1932: The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
1942: U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, his family, and key members of his staff are evacuated by PT boat, under cover of darkness, from Corregidor in the Philippines. Command of U.S. forces in the Philippines passes to Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright.
1952: The Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the war between Japan and the Allies, and simultaneously ending the occupation of the four main Japanese islands.
1962: Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin.
1972: Mariner 9 sends pictures as it orbits Mars.
1983: Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 10
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