102 - Etna Louisa Edwards - Kolb Cemetery - Spencer, OK
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Etna Edwards was born the same year that The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War.
Waymark Code: WMJ0HM
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2013
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The final resting place of Etna Edwards is at the southwest corner of Kolb Cemetery, at the north end of section 2.
Text on marker:
Etna Louisa Edwards
Oct 30, 1898
Sept 1, 2001
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Etna's time on earth:
1898: The first of the two Tsavo Man-Eaters is shot by John Henry Patterson; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 workers have been killed by the lions.
1908: The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner just invented by James M. Spangler.
1918: The last captive Carolina Parakeet (the last breed of parrot native to the eastern United States) dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1928: The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.
1938: A brilliant aurora borealis described variously as "a curtain of fire" and a "huge blood-red beam of light" startles people across Europe and is visible as far south as Gibraltar.
1948: The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations
1958: Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
1968: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson edges out antiwar candidate Eugene J. McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam.
1978: The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation.
1988: The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy intentionally rammed USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.
1998: The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U.S. President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs
2001: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet.
Location of Headstone: Kolb Cemetery
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