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Bessie Smith 1901 - 1984

Bessie Smith of Levittown, Bucks County, PA was born on February 24, 1901, and died at age 82 years old in January 1984.
Bessie Smith
Levittown, Bucks County, PA 19054
February 24, 1901
January 1984
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1901 - 1984

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  • 02/24
    1901

    Birthday

    February 24, 1901
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  • 01/dd
    1984

    Death

    January 1984
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    Bessie Smith lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1901, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, shortly after beginning his second term, President McKinley was assassinated by the self proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The last President to have served in the Civil War - he began as a private and ended the war as a brevet major - McKinley was a Republican. First elected in 1896, he was re-elected in 1900. Six months after the swearing in, McKinley was shot - and died of the gangrene that set in as a result.
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In 1915, by the time she was merely 14 years old, the Superior Court in Fulton County Georgia accepted the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan, succeeding the Klan that flourished in the South in the late 1800's. This iteration of the Klan adopted white clothing and used many of the code words from the first Klan, adding cross burnings and mass marches in an attempt to intimidate others.
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