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Bertha Shepps 1897 - 1984

Bertha Shepps of Wharton, Morris County, NJ was born on September 23, 1897, and died at age 86 years old in May 1984.
Bertha Shepps
Wharton, Morris County, NJ 07885
September 23, 1897
May 1984
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  • 09/23
    1897

    Birthday

    September 23, 1897
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  • 05/dd
    1984

    Death

    May 1984
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    Bertha Shepps lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1897, in the year that Bertha Shepps 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 1919, at the age of 22 years old, Bertha was alive when in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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