101 - Mary M. Graves - Fairlawn Cemetery - Stillwater, OK
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N 36° 06.768 W 097° 02.555
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Centenarian Mary M. Graves is laid to rest in Fairlawn Cemetery
Waymark Code: WM11DGY
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/02/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member elyob
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The final resting place of centenarian Mary M. Graves is at the south side of Fairlawn Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Stillwater, OK. The headstone is a single, upright marker that has an angled top.

Marker text:

Mary M. Graves
Jan. 12, 1897-Jan. 18, 1998

Some historical events that occurred during Mary's life:

1897: William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th President of the United States.
1907: President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th state in the United States.
1917: Mata Hari is arrested in Paris for spying.
1927: The Harlem Globetrotters play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois.
1937: John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men, is published in the United States.
1947: The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage, and kills 50 people
1957: Ku Klux Klan members force African-American truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge, into the Alabama River; he drowns as a result.
1967: U.S. labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
1977: U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
1987: The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1998: Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

Find a Grave memorial for Mary M. Graves:

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Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery

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