103 - Lillie M. Epley - Fort Jones, CA - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Lillie Mae Epley lived to be 103 years of age. I wasn't able to locate any obituary for her so the following events occurred during Lillie's birth year:

Jan 3 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington, D.C.
Jan 13 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.
Mar 13 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages across the east coast of the USA and Canada
Apr 24 Eastman Kodak founded by George Eastman
May 22 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
Jun 1 California gets its 1st seismograph
Jun 13 US Congress creates Department of Labor
Jun 23 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President
Aug 21 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
Aug 31 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, is found in Whitechapel , in London's East End
Sep 7 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York
Oct 9 Washington Monument opens for public admittance
Oct 17 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)
Oct 30 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
Nov 14 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
Dec 23 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping

Location of Headstone: Fort Jones Cemetery

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