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Bessie M Rutledge 1892 - 1998

Bessie M Rutledge of Decatur, Macon County, IL was born on August 8, 1892, and died at age 105 years old on January 24, 1998.
Bessie M Rutledge
Decatur, Macon County, IL 62521
August 8, 1892
January 24, 1998
Female
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  • 08/8
    1892

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    August 8, 1892
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  • 01/24
    1998

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    January 24, 1998
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    Bessie M Rutledge lived 33 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 105.
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In 1892, in the year that Bessie M Rutledge was born, on October 5th, the Dalton Gang was shot. The Gang was attempting to rob two banks - simultaneously - in Coffeyville Kansas but word spread of the robberies and townspeople with guns greeted them when they left the banks. Four members of the gang were killed - only Emmett Dalton survived his wounds and spent 14 years in prison.
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In 1905, by the time she was only 13 years old, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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