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Bertha Mellema 1888 - 1973

Bertha Mellema of Lansing, Cook County, Illinois was born on May 8, 1888, and died at age 85 years old in November 1973.
Bertha Mellema
Lansing, Cook County, Illinois 60438
May 8, 1888
November 1973
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    1888

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    May 8, 1888
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  • 11/dd
    1973

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    November 1973
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    Bertha Mellema lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1888, in the year that Bertha Mellema was born, on January 12th, the 'Schoolhouse Blizzard' blanketed Dakota Territory. Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas were hit, leaving 235 dead. Many of those who perished were children on their way home from school. The day was relatively warm when it began and the blizzard hit unexpectedly, catching most by surprise.
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In 1899, she was merely 11 years old when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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