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Bessie Smith 1880 - 1979

Bessie Smith of Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana was born on November 17, 1880, and died at age 98 years old in September 1979.
Bessie Smith
Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana 46928
November 17, 1880
September 1979
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1880 - 1979

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  • 11/17
    1880

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    November 17, 1880
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  • 09/dd
    1979

    Death

    September 1979
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    Bessie Smith lived 26 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
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In 1880, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on February 4th, five members of one family in Ontario, Canada were killed and their farm was burned by a mob. Called the Black Donnelly Massacre, the Irish family had been feuding with other citizens of the town. No one was ever convicted.
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In 1909, at the age of 29 years old, Bessie was alive when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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