100 - T.H.B. Williams - Fairlawn Cemetery - OKC, OK - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

The final resting place of T.H.B. Williams is at the very far southeast corner of Fairlawn Cemetery, just north of the main entrance. His is a horizontal marker with a grey border and white inset.

Text on headstone:

T.H.B. Williams
1855 - 1955


Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Mr. Williams' time on earth:

1855: The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory.
1865: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth; this same year the U.S. Secret Service is founded
1875: Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1885: A train wreck of the P.T. Barnum Circus kills giant elephant Jumbo.
1895: At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
1905: Albert Einstein submits his paper Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? in which he develops an argument for the famous equation E = mc2.
1915: WWI: British and German forces declare an unofficial Christmas truce, get out of the trenches and have a free-for-all kick-around football game in no man's land.
1925: London's first enclosed double-decker buses are introduced.
1935: Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House.
1945: The Allied Forces liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.
1955: First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.

Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery

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