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Bessie Houston 1881 - 1971

Bessie Houston of Lynchburg, Highland County, Ohio was born on March 20, 1881, and died at age 89 years old in January 1971.

Bessie Houston

Lynchburg, Highland County, Ohio 45142

March 20, 1881

January 1971

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In 1881, in the year that Bessie Houston was born, on October 26th, the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" happened in Tombstone, Arizona. The gunfight lasted only 30 seconds - the Earps and Doc Holliday on one side and the "Cowboys" on the other side. The McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton of the Cowboys were killed. Two of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday were wounded.

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In 1919, Bessie was 38 years old when Indian lawyer Mahatma Gandhi initiated the Satyagraha campaigns, beginning the nonviolent resistance movement against British rule of India. Satyagraha means "holding onto truth" and the campaign for India independence, which was eventually obtained, called for "self-suffering" rather than inflicting suffering (i.e., violence) on others.

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