102 - Carrie L. Hyden - Vashti Cemetery - Vashti, TX
N 33° 33.366 W 098° 02.097
14S E 589583 N 3713355
Carrie L. Hyden was born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was published.
Waymark Code: WMHH8D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2013
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Carrie shares a modern gray, granite headstone with her husband, Francis Anglin. It features flowers as ornamentation, and has the family name at the top. Their dates are:
Carrie L.
Aug. 31, 1897
Nov. 13, 1999
Francis Anglin
Aug. 23, 1902
Mar. 8, 1987
A compass and square indicate that he was a Freemason.
Interesting events that happened in her lifetime include:
1897 - Dos Equis is first brewed in anticipation of the upcoming new century.
1907 - Robert Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1927 - Fritz Lang's culturally influential film "Metropolis" premieres in Germany.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
1947 - Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles.
1957 - Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal" opens in Sweden.
1967 - The 12th Street Riot takes place in Detroit, MI.
1977 - The first Apple II series computers go on sale.
1987 - The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1997 - The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades.
1999 - Apple Computer releases the Power Macintosh G4.
Location of Headstone: Vashti Cemetery - Vashti, TX
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