104 - Mother (Wheeler) - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.815 W 097° 32.229
14S E 632625 N 3932832
Mother Wheeler was born the same year that Hungary declared independence from Austria.
Waymark Code: WMEQDB
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2012
Views: 2
The final resting place of Mother Wheeler is at the southeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, near the center of section 8. Hers is a flat, brown stone laid next to a similar one for her spouse. A family monument with the Wheeler name is located a few feet away.
Text on marker:
Mother
1849 - 1953
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Mrs. Wheeler's time on earth:
1849: Irish Potato Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high
1859: Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state
1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings open the baseball season as the first fully professional baseball team
1879: Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon
1889: At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000
1899: Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections
1909: The city of Tel Aviv (then known as Ahuzat Bayit) is founded
1919: In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement
1929: The longest bridge in the world, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens
1939: African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia
1949: English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang during a BBC Third Programme radio broadcast
1953: Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan, premieres
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 8
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