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Bessie Davis 1899 - 1982

Bessie Davis of Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee was born on November 26, 1899, and died at age 82 years old in June 1982.
Bessie Davis
Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee 37665
November 26, 1899
June 1982
Female
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Bessie Davis' History: 1899 - 1982

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  • 11/26
    1899

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    November 26, 1899
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  • 06/dd
    1982

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    June 1982
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    Bessie Davis lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1899, in the year that Bessie Davis was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1921, by the time she was 22 years old, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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