When Nelia Agnes Coulter was born on 24 August 1901, in Grady, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Henry Elwin Coulter, was 29 and her mother, Cordelia Augustine Maddox, was 29. She married Thomas Sylvester Lackey on 25 December 1920, in Grady, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hillsboro Township, Grady, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years and Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. She died on 28 November 1978, in Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fowler Cemetery, Fowler, Fresno, California, United States.
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A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Scottish (Lanarkshire and Ayr): habitational name from Coulter in Lanarkshire or Culter, Aberdeenshire.
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