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Ben Smith 1890 - 1964

Ben Smith of Kentucky was born on May 10, 1890, and died at age 74 years old in July 1964.
Ben Smith
Kentucky
May 10, 1890
July 1964
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  • 05/10
    1890

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    May 10, 1890
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  • 07/dd
    1964

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    July 1964
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    Ben Smith lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1890, in the year that Ben Smith was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1915, at the age of 25 years old, Ben was alive when the Superior Court in Fulton County Georgia accepted the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan, succeeding the Klan that flourished in the South in the late 1800's. This iteration of the Klan adopted white clothing and used many of the code words from the first Klan, adding cross burnings and mass marches in an attempt to intimidate others.
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