101 - Eliza A. Cooper, Clearwater Cemetery, KS
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Centenarian Eliza A. Cooper is interred in Clearwater Cemetery, in northwest Clearwater, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WM13PMV
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2021
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Eliza Ann Harris Cooper is interred in Clearwater Cemetery along with her husband William Maize Cooper. Born in 1832 in Ohio, she passed away in 1933. Five of their children are interred here. What remarkable events passed during her long life! A few of them were:
1833 - Age 1 - General Antonio López de Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico
1843 - Age 11 - Charles Dickens' novella
A Christmas Carol is published
1853 - Age 21 - The world's first public aquarium, at the London Zoo
1863 - Age 31 - Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation
1873 - Age 41 - Jesse James and his gang conduct the first successful train robbery in the American West
1883 - Age 51 - Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel
Treasure Island is published
1893 - Age 61 - Edison's Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public
1903 - Age 71 - The Wright Brothers make their first powered flight
1913 - Age 81 - The first known ascent of Mount Olympus in Greece
1923 - Age 91 - Yankee Stadium opens in The Bronx, New York
1933 - Age 101 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany