105 - Elizabeth Collins - Fairlawn Cemetery - Stillwater, OK
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Elizabeth Collins was born the same year that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published.
Waymark Code: WMHYZ0
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/29/2013
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The final resting place of Elizabeth Collins is at the north side of Fairlawn Cemetery, near the center of the section.
Text on marker:
S.J. Collins
July 8, 1840
Dec. 21, 1925
Elizabeth
His Wife
Dec. 21, 1849
July 27, 1955
COLLINS
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Elizabeth's time on earth:
1850: Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad.
1860: The historic debate about evolution is held at the Oxford University Museum.
1870: The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University in the United States.
1880: The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
1890: Death of Vincent van Gogh: van Gogh apparently shoots himself, dying two days later.
1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1910: Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is now illegal.
1920: Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
1930: One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
1950: Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes.
1955: Claudette Colvin (a fifteen-year-old African-American girl) refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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