105 - Ruth Marie Compton - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Ruth Marie Compton was born the same year that Elva Zona Heaster was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia; the testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction against her husband.
Waymark Code: WMERGE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2012
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The final resting place of Ruth Marie Compton is near the center of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the far west side of section 3. Hers is a small, white, upright marker.
Text on headstone:
Ruth Marie Compton
August 27, 1897
March 27, 2003
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ruth's time on earth:
1897: The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
1907: The Second Hague Peace Conference is held
1917: The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million
1927: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people in the greatest natural disaster in American history at that time
1937: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew
1947: Jackie Robinson, the first African American in modern Major League Baseball, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers
1957: Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his peackeeping efforts in the United Nations
1967: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test
1977: Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini's La Boheme
1987: New York mafiosi Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Carmine Peruccia are sentenced to 100 years in prison for racketeering
1997: Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States Senate
2003: An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the first identified case of SARS. WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual, highly contagious disease to WHO. Both the businessman and doctor later die of the disease
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 3
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