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Bessie Watterson 1889 - 1978

Bessie Watterson of Grover, Cleveland County, North Carolina was born on February 9, 1889, and died at age 88 years old in January 1978.
Bessie Watterson
Grover, Cleveland County, North Carolina 28073
February 9, 1889
January 1978
Female
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    1889

    Birthday

    February 9, 1889
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  • 01/dd
    1978

    Death

    January 1978
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    Bessie Watterson lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1889, in the year that Bessie Watterson 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 1924, at the age of 35 years old, Bessie was alive when J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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