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Bessie D Smith 1899 - 1994

Bessie D Smith of Knox City, Knox County, TX was born on March 14, 1899, and died at age 95 years old in November 1994.
Bessie D Smith
Knox City, Knox County, TX 79529
March 14, 1899
November 1994
Female
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  • 03/14
    1899

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    March 14, 1899
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  • 11/dd
    1994

    Death

    November 1994
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    Bessie D Smith lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1899, in the year that Bessie D Smith 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 1906, at the age of merely 7 years old, Bessie was alive when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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