100 - Flora M. Anderson - Binger Cemetery - Arkansas
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N 33° 59.037 W 093° 47.485
15S E 426899 N 3760658
Flora Anderson was born in 1909, the same year that Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Eskimo explorers come within a few miles of the North Pole
Waymark Code: WMCPCK
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 09/28/2011
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Flora M. Anderson is laid to rest at Binger Cemetery, NE of Nashville, Arkansas and SW of Murfreesboro. This is a small rural cemetery off of Highway 27.
Her marker is divided by an 18 inch gap that has a flower vase and the inscription "Anderson" at the base of the foundation.
The left side of the monument reads:
Willis G.
Jan. 5, 1903
Feb. 10, 1999
Inscribed on the right side:
Flora M.
Dec. 9, 1909
July 14, 2010
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Flora's lifetime:
1909: Joan of Arc declared a Saint; First SOS used by American ship
1919: Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of States; Treaty of Versailles signed; President Woodrow Wilson paralyzed by a stroke
1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago: 7 gangsters killed; New York to San Francisco foot race begins
1939: Food stamps first issued; WWII starts
1949: 1st daytime Soap Opera on TV (These Are My Children); S. Africa begins implementing Apartheid: no mixed marriages
1959: Barbie doll goes on sale; OK ends Prohibition after 51 years
1969: Richard Nixon becomes 37th President of the United States
1979: Three-mile island nuclear power plant accident
1989: "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1999: The Mars Polar Lander was launched
2009: In the worst aviation disaster since 2001, Air France Flight 447 disappears somewhere off the northeast coast of Brazil with 228 people on board, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
2010: An explosion on a BP oil rig off of Louisiana causes oil to spill into the Gulf for 86 days, causing widespread damange
Location of Headstone: Binger Cemetery
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