101 - Amanda E. Crawford - Fairlawn Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Amanda E. Crawford was born the same year that General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Waymark Code: WMGD67
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2013
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The final resting place of Amanda Crawford is at the east side of Fairlawn Cemetery, just a few feet east of the road. hers is a flat, light reddish marker with flowers etched into the bottom center.
Text on headstone:
Amanda E. Crawford
1865 1966
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Amanda's time on earth:
1865: U. S. President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
1875: Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1895: Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.
1905: Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are banned from the Brooklyn Public Library for setting a "bad example."
1915: Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.
1925: The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
1935: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.
1945: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (taken by Joe Rosenthal), later wins a Pulitzer Prize.
1955: The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
1966: It's a Small World opens at Disneyland.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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