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Bessie Mae Smith 1933 - 2010

Bessie Mae Smith of Jamestown, Fentress County, Indiana was born on February 8, 1933, and died at age 77 years old on December 23, 2010.
Bessie Mae Smith
Jamestown, Fentress County, Indiana 38556
February 8, 1933
December 23, 2010
Female
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Bessie Mae Smith's History: 1933 - 2010

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  • 02/8
    1933

    Birthday

    February 8, 1933
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  • 12/23
    2010

    Death

    December 23, 2010
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    Bessie Mae Smith lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1933, in the year that Bessie Mae Smith was born, on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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In 1957, at the age of 24 years old, Bessie was alive when on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.
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