Norma Jean Elephant

Historical marker location:

603 N 5th St, Oquawka, Illinois

( Marker is on North 5th Street north of Mercer Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Aug. 10, 1942 - July 17, 1972.

Illinois is the birthplace of several famous people, including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, and writer Ernest Hemingway.