102 - Jonathan Perry Hobbs - Cool Springs Cemetery - Van Zandt County, TX
N 32° 28.519 W 095° 52.224
15S E 230235 N 3596753
Jonathan Perry Hobbs was born in 1883, the year that the Brooklyn Bridge opened in New York. A week after it opened, rumors that the bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede.
Waymark Code: WMQ0DP
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2015
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Mr. Perry's grave is marked with a small, red granite headstone with a simple inscription:
Jonathan Perry
Hobbs
Nov. 5, 1883
May 30, 1986
Significant events during his lifetime include:
1883 - Standard time zones are created by railroads in the U.S. and Canada.
1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of giving her parents any number of whacks with an axe.
1903 - The infant motion picture industry stands up and begins to walk with the release of "The Great Train Robbery."
1913 - The first highway across the United States, the Lincoln Highway, is dedicated.
1923 - The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its members. They had no concept of a group in 2015 having different ideas about that.
1933 - Another war on drugs, called "Prohibition", ends with the ratification of the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1943 - Norman Rockwell's illustration of "Rosie the Riveter" first appears on the cover of "The Saturday Evening Post."
1953 - Josef Stalin dies before he has the opportunity to launch one last purge.
1963 - The Coca Cola Company introduces its first diet cola, Tab. Marty McFly will have no luck getting one in 1955.
1973 - Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook."
1983 - Pope John Paul II forgives his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca.
1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven crew members.
Location of Headstone: Cool Springs Cemetery - Van Zandt County, TX
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