101 - Chas H. Parker - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.856 W 097° 32.198
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Chas H. Parker was born the same year that Hyman Lipman patented a pencil with an attached eraser.
Waymark Code: WMGBA0
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/09/2013
Views: 2
The final resting place of Chas Parker is at the southeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the east side of section 5. His is a horizontal marker next to a family monument with the name Parker.
Text on headstone:
Chas H. Parker
1858 - 1959
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Chas' time on earth:
1858: The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace, London.
1868: The Emperor Meiji of Japan announces that the name of the city of Edo is to be changed to Tokyo.
1878: A match race between champion thoroughbred racehorses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty draws more than 30,000 fans to Louisville and insprires the folk song, Molly and Tenbrooks.
1888: During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear.
1898: The British government makes a 99 year rent of Hong Kong from China
1908: Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.
1918: In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, U.S.-born magician) dies during his trick where he is supposed to "catch" two separate bullets – but one of them perforates his lung. He dies the following morning in a hospital.
1928: Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to be generally distributed.
1938: Wrong Way Corrigan takes off from New York, ostensibly heading for California. He lands in Ireland instead.
1948: The stock car racing series Nascar is founded by Bill France Sr. and William France, Sr.
1959: The Marx Brothers make their last television appearance, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery.
(source: wikipedia)
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial park, section 5
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