106 - Oma Adams - Sweetwater Cemetery - Near Decatur, TX
N 33° 14.791 W 097° 28.925
14S E 641408 N 3679643
Oma Adams was born the year that Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, UT.
Waymark Code: WMGVB7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2013
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Sweetwater Cemetery is located about six miles east of Decatur, TX, on the north side of US 380. The cemetery is named for nearby Sweetwater Creek, and Jesse and Frank James camped not far from here. Oma shares a gray headstone with her husband, George M. Adams. The stone features flower detail, with the family name up top, and the following inscription:
Dad
George M.
Jan. 3, 1873
June 10, 1949
Mama
Oma
Sept. 29, 1875
Nov. 22, 1981
Interesting events in her lifetime include:
1875 - Writer Hans Christian Andersen is born.
1885 - The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington DC, and the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1895 - The Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina is completed.
1905 - The Bloody Sunday massacre of Russian demonstrators, at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, helps trigger the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.
1915 - While working as a cook at New York's Sloane Hospital for Women under an assumed name, "Typhoid Mary" (an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever) infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life on March 27.
1925 - Lon Chaney stars in the silent film, "The Phantom of the Opera."
1935 - The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.
1945 - World War II ends.
1955 - Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" sells over a million copies.
1965 - The first domed stadium, the Astrodome, opens in Houston, TX.
1975 - US President Gerald Ford survives two assassination attempts.
1981 - Simon & Garfunkel perform "The Concert in Central Park," a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.
Location of Headstone: Sweetwater Cemetery
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