101 - Nora B. Fulton - Perkins, OK
Posted by: Max and 99
N 35° 58.363 W 097° 02.490
14S E 676586 N 3982695
Centenarian Nora Fulton is laid to rest on the north side of Knipe Cemetery in Perkins.
Waymark Code: WM13RJ7
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/09/2021
Views: 2
The final resting place of Nora Fulton is at the north end of Knipe Cemetery next to the road. She shares a block-style upright double marker with her spouse Isaac W., whom she outlived by 34 years.
Text on headstone:
Fulton (on the top face)
Nora B. Fulton
His Wife
Mar. 22, 1887
Nov. 24, 1988
Isaac W. Fulton
Dec. 21, 1884
May 4, 1954
Some historical events that occurred during Nora's time on earth:
1887: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
1897: Representatives of the Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation and U.S. Dawes Commission sign the Atoka Agreement, which becomes an important precursor for creating the State of Oklahoma
1907: Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
1917: "Night of Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes from the Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned.
1927: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.
1937: John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men, is published in the United States.
1947: Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh
1957: The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil.
1967: The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty prohibiting weapons of mass destruction from space.
1977: U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
1988: Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.
Location of Headstone: Knipe Cemetery
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