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Bessie Cheeks 1899 - 1989

Bessie Cheeks of Poplar Bluff, Butler County, MO was born on August 31, 1899, and died at age 89 years old on July 15, 1989.
Bessie Cheeks
Poplar Bluff, Butler County, MO 63901
August 31, 1899
July 15, 1989
Female
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  • 08/31
    1899

    Birthday

    August 31, 1899
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  • 07/15
    1989

    Death

    July 15, 1989
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    Cause of death
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    Bessie Cheeks lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1899, in the year that Bessie Cheeks was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1933, at the age of 34 years old, Bessie was alive when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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