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Bessie Smith 1886 - 1971

Bessie Smith of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska was born on February 9, 1886, and died at age 85 years old in August 1971.
Bessie Smith
Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska 68310
February 9, 1886
August 1971
Female
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    1886

    Birthday

    February 9, 1886
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  • 08/dd
    1971

    Death

    August 1971
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    Bessie Smith lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1886, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on January 5th, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson's book the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published. Immediately popular, the paperback book was sold for $1 in the U.S. - almost $25 today. Stevenson's stepson said that he wrote the first draft in under 3 days.
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In 1911, at the age of 25 years old, Bessie was alive when British physicist Ernest Rutherford (born in New Zealand), along with German physicist Hans Geiger, discovered the structure of an atom. He found that atoms had nuclei (a nucleus) and were circled by electrons, much as planets orbit the sun.
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