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Bessie Gerrans 1889 - 1982

Bessie Gerrans of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on August 20, 1889, and died at age 92 years old in January 1982.
Bessie Gerrans
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee 38117
August 20, 1889
January 1982
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    1889

    Birthday

    August 20, 1889
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  • 01/dd
    1982

    Death

    January 1982
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    Bessie Gerrans lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1889, in the year that Bessie Gerrans was born, on January 15th, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated - originally as the "Pemberton Medicine Company". The Coca-Cola drink was originally created by John Stith Pemberton, first as a patent medicine and then as a soda fountain drink. Pemberton had sold the company in 1888, shortly before he died.
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In 1905, when she was 16 years old, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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