101 - Julia Eaton - Sapulpa, OK
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Julia Eaton was born the same year that David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia–Zimbabwe
Waymark Code: WMDXP5
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/07/2012
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The final resting place of Julia Eaton is at the northeast corner of Old Sapulpa Cemetery. Hers is a flat, light-grey stone with a white inset box for her name and years of birth/death.
Her headstone reads:
Julia Eaton
Sept. 1, 1855
Sept. 15, 1956
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Julia's lifetime:
1855: Henry Bessemer files his patent in the United Kingdom for the Bessemer process of steelmaking
1865: The Confederate States of America agrees to the use of African American troops
1875: Ten sophomores from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) steal a one-ton cannon from the campus of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and start the Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War
1885: Good Housekeeping Magazine goes on sale for the first time in the United States
1895: Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in NYC's Times Square district
1905: The cost of a First-Class stamp was 2 cents
1915: Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll
1925: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy
1935: Hachiko, the loyal dog who was remembered for his loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owners death, passes away on the very same spot he had waited for over nine years
1945: Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed
1956: Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time
Location of Headstone: Old Sapulpa Cemetery
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