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Bessie Smith 1889 - 1977

Bessie Smith of Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama was born on March 18, 1889, and died at age 88 years old in March 1977.

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Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama 35601
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March 18, 1889
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In 1889, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on January 15th, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated - originally as the "Pemberton Medicine Company". The Coca-Cola drink was originally created by John Stith Pemberton, first as a patent medicine and then as a soda fountain drink. Pemberton had sold the company in 1888, shortly before he died.
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In 1902, by the time she was merely 13 years old, the Bureau of the Census was established. This was the government department that was a boon to family historians - it, even now, is responsible for taking the census and provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States.
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Smith, Catherine (Born Apr 29, 1854) Smith, Jane (Sep 12, 1823 - Jul 30, 1892) Smith, Andrew (Born Mar 8, 1846) Matheny-Smith, Ruby Smith, Clark Smith, Francis (Born 1861) Smith-Brown, Bernice Smith, Angus (Born 1859) Smith, Roderick (Born May 29, 1891) Smith, On the Right Mary (Born Nov 10, 1935)
Smith, Louise (Born Aug 7, 1914) Smith, George (Born Jul 18, 1885) Smith, Harvey (Born 1883) Neal-Smith, Elizabeth (Born 1890) Smith, Margaret (Born Mar 7, 1921) Smith, Eugene Barthel, Alice (Born Nov 17, 1913) Smith, Stanley (Born 1925) Ferguson, Catherine  (Apr 30, 1854 - Feb 7, 1930) Smith, Bill
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