103 - Corp. Franklin C. Howard - Rush Springs, OK
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N 34° 47.212 W 097° 56.876
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Franklin Howard was born about three weeks before the Battle of the Alamo and the death of Davy Crockett.
Waymark Code: WMJV39
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2014
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Franklin Howard was a corporal in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He lived through that terrible carnage, and lived on to the age of 103. He was a member of the 12th Texas Infantry. Information on this company can be found at: http://12thtexasinfantry.org/
His military headstone stands in Rush Springs Cemetery and is engraved:
Corp.
Franklin C. Howard
Co. H
12 Texas Inf.
C.S.A.
Feb. 17, 1836
May 21, 1939
* When Franklin was ten, the U.S. declared war on Mexico.
* He was 20 when the 15th president, James Buchanan was inaugurated.
* The first telephone call was made the year he turned 40.
* When Frankllin was 70, the first animated cartoon was copyrighted, and this was also the year of the San Francisco earthquake.
* Fifty years after the first telephone call, the first transatlantic call was made from London to New York.
* The Hoover Dam was completed the year Franklin turned 100.
* The day before Franklin passed away, the first regular transatlantic airmail service was established (Pan American Airways - New York to France).