Union Cemetery

Rives, Preston


DIED: 9/18/1929
AGED: 62
CAUSE OF DEATH: Bronchial Pneumonia

OCCUPATION: laborer

PLOT INFO: PHOTOS:
CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
  • 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
  • 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
  • 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
  • 1912 The Titanic sank
  • 1920 Prohibition begins
  • 1920 Women get to vote
  • 1920 The Roaring 20's
  • 1927 'Grand Ole Opry' show on Radio
  • 1928 Steamboat Willie (Disney)

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