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Bessie Doss 1882 - 1968

Bessie Doss of Ipava, Fulton County, Illinois was born on January 8, 1882, and died at age 86 years old in April 1968.

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Ipava, Fulton County, Illinois 61441
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In 1882, in the year that Bessie Doss was born, on March 22nd, the Edmunds Act - passed by Congress - made polygamy a felony. The Act also banned "bigamous" relationships and "unlawful cohabitation", making it illegal for polygamists and those who simply lived together without marrying to vote, be on a jury, or hold a public office.
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In 1890, by the time she was merely 8 years old, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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Doss, Lena (Born Oct 3, 1893) Doss-Trost, Wilhelmina Louise (Born Oct 1, 1853) Doss, Jess (Born Feb 8, 1862) Doss, Margaret (Born Jul 24, 1924) Doss, George (Born May 15, 1905) Doss, Betty (Born Feb 6, 1936) Doss, Mattie (Born Oct 6, 1890) Doss, Henry (Born Apr 1, 1888) Doss, James (Born Oct 13, 1892) Doss, Elizabeth (Born Apr 4, 1897)
Doss, Velma (Born Feb 6, 1904) Doss, John (Born May 28, 1867) Doss, Irene (Born Feb 9, 1899) Doss, Willa (Sep 3, 1910 - Apr 2, 1997) Doss, Mary (Aug 2, 1934 - Jul 23, 2005) Doss, Elizabeth (Jun 14, 1922 - Jun 15, 1993) Doss, Jody (Jun 27, 1955 - Nov 13, 2008) Doss, Esther (Jan 23, 1928 - Feb 25, 2010) Doss, Michael (Jun 13, 1963 - Mar 23, 2001) Doss, Ruth (Apr 24, 1919 - Apr 22, 2010)
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