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Bessie C Smith 1914 - 2009

Bessie C Smith of Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS was born on November 16, 1914, and died at age 94 years old on March 24, 2009.
Bessie C Smith
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS 39601
November 16, 1914
March 24, 2009
Female
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  • 11/16
    1914

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    November 16, 1914
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  • 03/24
    2009

    Death

    March 24, 2009
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    Bessie C Smith lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1914, in the year that Bessie C Smith was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1922, she was merely 8 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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