104 - Mabel E. Neph - Fairlawn Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Mabel Neph was born the same year that the first successful appendectomy was performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
Waymark Code: WMGF9E
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2013
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The final resting place of Mabel Neph is at the southwest corner of Fairlawn Cemetery, about two feet east of the road. Hers is a flat, double marker, shared with her spouse William.
Text on headstone:
Neph
Mabel E.
1885 - 1989
William E.
1880 - 1947
1885: The battle of Frog Lake, Alberta between the Cree and mounties.
1895: Rudyard Kipling publishes the story Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine (price 10 cents).
1905: The Simplon Tunnel is officially opened through the Alps
1915: Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th round knockout in sweltering heat at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
1925: In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
1935: The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company
1945: Anne Frank dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, of typhus
1955: Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom due to ill-health at the age of 80.
1965: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
1975: The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain.
1989: Thomas and Friends television show begins in U.S.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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