100 - Ziska Valpy Barker - Sadler Cemetery - Sadler, TX
N 33° 40.034 W 096° 50.955
14S E 699406 N 3727336
Ziska Valpy Barker was born in 1891, the year that Thomas Edison first showed off a prototype of his kinetoscope. The motion pictures are coming!
Waymark Code: WMT272
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2016
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Ms. Barker's headstone is a modern, gray granite marker with flowers at the upper corners, and "The Lord is my Shepherd" in a ribbon at the bottom. Her personal information is:
Ziska Valpy
Barker
Feb. 5, 1891
Feb. 22, 1991
Significant events in her lifetime include:
1891 - Dr. James Naismith invents basketball, Mrs. QDV's favorite sport.
1901 - President William McKinley is assassinated in Buffalo by an anarchist who thought he was doing the poor a favor.
1911 - Actress Butterfly McQueen is born in January, certainly delivered by someone who did know about birthin' babies.
1921 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is stricken with polio. He beats up on the disease and still has a bright future ahead of him.
1931 - Bela Lugosi stars "Dracula".
1941 - Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in December, dragging the United States into World War II.
1951 - "The Giants win the pennant!" thanks to Bobby Thomson's late home run against the Dodgers.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin is the first human being in space, circling the Earth once.
1971 - D.B. Cooper hijacks a plane and makes off with $200,000 in ransom money. He was never caught.
1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. shoots President Reagan, his press secretary, and two police officers.
1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins against Iraq.
Location of Headstone: Sadler Cemetery
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