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Bessie M Smith 1901 - 1988

Bessie M Smith was born on December 28, 1901, and died at age 86 years old in November 1988.
Bessie M Smith
zip code 31723
December 28, 1901
November 1988
Female
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  • 12/28
    1901

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    December 28, 1901
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  • 11/dd
    1988

    Death

    November 1988
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    Bessie M Smith lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1901, in the year that Bessie M Smith was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1921, at the age of 20 years old, Bessie was alive when on November 11th, the first burial was held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The body of an unknown soldier - selected by Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger who was highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Cross in "The Great War" - was brought back from France (World War 1) and placed in the newly completed tomb. President Warren G. Harding officiated at the interment ceremonies.
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