105 - Viola M. Bolton - near New Truxton, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 56.913 W 091° 15.219
15S E 651333 N 4312517
1894 – Union Station in St. Louis opens.
Waymark Code: WMVMXR
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2017
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County of grave: Warren County
Location of grave: Pin Oak Church Rd., 1 block S. of Pin Oak Rd., 3 miles S. of New Truxton
Fist of all her Find-A-Grave listing. Not much for history or personal information
Born in April and passed in March, she was a full 105
Tombstone text:
BOLTON
VIOLE M.
1894-1999
Events of her birth year:
• President of the United States: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard,
in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• March 12 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
• March 25 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs from Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
• May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
The May Day Riots of 1894 break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
• May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union
approval) strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company
town of Pullman, Chicago.
• July – A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
• July 4 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• September 1 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
• September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
• November 5 – West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.