104 - Cordelia Dennison - Martin Oaks Cemetery - Lewisville, TX
N 33° 01.867 W 097° 01.593
14S E 684300 N 3656467
Cordelia Dennison was born in 1884, the year that the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
Waymark Code: WMKCM6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2014
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According to the Social Security Death Index, she was born 9/26/1884 and died sometime in August of 1989. Her headstone is a simple brass plate on a stone background with her name and birth and death years, flanked by roses and created in such a way as to resemble a scroll. Significant events in her lifetime include:
1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published.
1894 - Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using a Thomas Edison wax cylinder.
1914 - St. Patrick's Day gets green beer, as Dr. Thomas H. Curtin creates it and displays it at the Schnorrer Club of Morrisania in the Bronx, New York.
1924 - Adolf Hitler spends eight months in prison, writing Mein Kampf to while away the hours.
1934 - Sergei Kirov's murder in the Soviet Union is used to launch Stalin's Great Purge.
1944 - Crimean Tatars are deported by the Soviet Union.
1954 - The first Dionne Quintuplet to die is Emilie, on August 6.
1964 - Plans to build the World Trade Center in New York are announced.
1974 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr., murders his entire family in their home in Amityville on Long Island, an event that inspires the story of The Amityville Horror.
1984 - Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
1989 - The Ayatollah Khomeini, of Iran, is practically dumped from casket during his funeral, by mourners eager to seize a piece of his burial shroud.
Location of Headstone: Martin Oaks Cemetery - Lewisville, TX
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