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Bess I Hoyl 1897 - 1992

Bess I Hoyl of Decatur, Wise County, TX was born on April 24, 1897, and died at age 95 years old on August 12, 1992.
Bess I Hoyl
Decatur, Wise County, TX 76234
April 24, 1897
August 12, 1992
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  • 04/24
    1897

    Birthday

    April 24, 1897
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  • 08/12
    1992

    Death

    August 12, 1992
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    Bess I Hoyl lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1897, in the year that Bess I Hoyl 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 1943, at the age of 46 years old, Bess was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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