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Bessie Smith 1895 - 1977

Bessie Smith of Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky was born on October 1, 1895, and died at age 81 years old in January 1977.

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Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 40203
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In 1895, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.
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In 1906, by the time she was just 11 years old, abolitionist and suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony died, before women's right to vote nationally was realized (in 1920). She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which later became the League of Women Voters. She died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in New York.
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Other Smith Family Biographies

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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