101 - Emma Rogers Clark - Fairlawn Cemetery -Stillwater, OK
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Emma Rogers Clark was born the same year that The United States Greenback Party was established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.
Waymark Code: WMHBT9
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/21/2013
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The final resting place of Emma Rogers Clark is at the northwest corner of Fairlawn Cemetery, at the west side of the sections. Hers is an upright marker with the following text:
Clark
Emma Rogers
Nov. 10, 1874
Jan. 12, 1976
Wife of
Melvin B. Clark
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Emma's time on earth:
1874: Gold is discovered in the Black Hills.
1884: American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them).
1894: Major Republican landslide in the United States House of Representatives elections, which sets the stage for the decisive presidential election of 1896.
1904: The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1914: The New York Stock Exchange re-opened, having been closed since 1 Aug 1914 except for bond trading.
1924: Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
1934: Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics, being the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards – Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film.
1944: At Anzio, Italian forces launch a counteroffensive.
1954: RCA manufactures the first color TV set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000)
1964: John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program.
1976: The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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