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Bertha Bessett 1897 - 1968

Bertha Bessett of Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois was born on September 22, 1897, and died at age 70 years old in May 1968.

Bertha Bessett
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Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois 60406
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In 1897, in the year that Bertha Bessett was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1922, she was 25 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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Bessett, Bertha (Apr 12, 1886 - May 1975)

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Bessett, George (May 2, 1897 - Apr 1974) Bessett, Harold (Dec 18, 1912 - Nov 1973) Bessett, George (Mar 20, 1927 - Jul 1986) Bessett, Meta (Oct 26, 1911 - Jan 14, 1994) Bessett, Timothy (Mar 1, 1945 - Sep 5, 2009) Bessett, David (Aug 4, 1947 - Oct 2, 2002) Bessett, Fletcher (Oct 17, 1910 - Mar 1974) Bessett, Earl (Jul 3, 1916 - Mar 1982) Bessett, Nelson (Feb 13, 1922 - Oct 31, 1992) Bessett, Helen (Mar 19, 1917 - Sep 14, 2001)
Bessett, Virginia (Oct 20, 1916 - Oct 1977) Bessett, Ida (Oct 14, 1893 - Dec 1985) Bessett, Robert (Apr 10, 1919 - Dec 1973) Bessett, Edna (May 19, 1915 - May 8, 2008) Bessett, Worthingto (Died Oct 1954) Bessett, Gertrude (Feb 19, 1910 - Jan 1986) Bessett, Maurice (Oct 16, 1918 - Aug 1987) Bessett, Gordon (Oct 19, 1912 - Feb 4, 1980) Bessett, Josephine (Aug 21, 1911 - Dec 1981) Bessett, Thaddeus (Jul 5, 1910 - Nov 1978)
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