100 - Jo Bell Devlin - Edmondson Cemetery - Southaven, MS - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

The final resting place of centenarian Jo Bell Devlin is at Edmondson Cemetery. When you enter from the south side, thru the iron gate, the marker will be up ahead and to your left. Hers is an upright marker among several others in the Devlin family.

Some important events that occurred during Jo's lifetime:

1874: Baseball's batter box is officially adopted
1884: Enigma outbreak of tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people
1894: 1st college basketball game, Univ. of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1904: In NYC, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
1914: The event that was widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I occurred on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death with his wife by the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo.
1924: Willem Einthoven wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the electrocardiogram.
1934: The Loch Ness Monster is spotted on Jan.14th for the first time
1944: Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States
1954: RCA manufactures the first color television set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000)
1964: Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the first time.
1974: After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.

Location of Headstone: Edmondson Cemetery (DeSoto County), Mississippi

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