Annie Oakley's Grave

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Annie Oakley's Grave
Image by Brandy Shaul Taken during the Annie Oakley Festival Historical Tour in Greenville, Ohio. Annie Oakley died in 1926 at the age of 66. Her body was cremated in Cincinatti and her urn was burried back in her hometown - Greenville, Ohio. Her gravestone / memorial can be seen here. The brown gravestone to the far right is that of her husband, and the stone in the middle belongs to her two nephews, whose plot Annie bought with money from some of her professional shooting contests. On the other side of Annie is the plot of her only brother, John. What's interesting about these gravestones is the fact that no one really knows if Annie was burried under the proper stone, or if her husband was switched with her. Other rumors say that they might be burried in the same plot, with her husband's body lying next to Annie's urn. Since he died only a few weeks after Annie, and their funerals took place at the same time (since Annie's was delayed for so long due to having to wait for her to be cremated in Cincinatti) this very well may be the case.

John oakley and john oakley taken by john oakley
Image by SparkleHedgehog

Hooks of Great Oakley Ford R226 Plaxton UMJ349K. 1978
Image by sludgegulper Ron Hooks had a fleet of green coaches based at Great Oakley, near Harwich. It seems that Staines Crusader had taken over the business by 1978 and painted vehicles into the white and black livery of the parent company in Clacton-on-Sea with similar fleet name treatment.This Ford R226 with Plaxton bodywork needed little repainting as it had come from the cream and black fleet of Jack Crump of Iver. It may even have starred in the odd Pinewood Studios film. In between it had been in the fleet of E. Kirby of Rayleigh. The Hooks coach operation was eventually gathered up together with Pilbeam's Harwich & Dovercourt Coaches into Chartercoach.