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Bessie Whitehead 1874 - 1970

Bessie Whitehead of Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee was born on September 12, 1874, and died at age 95 years old in March 1970.
Bessie Whitehead
Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee 37743
September 12, 1874
March 1970
Female
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    1874

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    September 12, 1874
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    1970

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    March 1970
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    Bessie Whitehead lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1874, in the year that Bessie Whitehead was born, on September 14th, the Battle of Liberty Place occurred in New Orleans - the capital of Louisiana. Some members of the previous Confederate Army assembled for the purpose of "driving the usurpers from power" and the Republican Governor - William P. Kellogg - was physically driven from his office. The former Confederates temporarily replaced him with (the former) Democratic Governor John McEnery. Federal forces arrived, put down the insurrection, and five days later the legally elected government was restored.
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In 1890, she was 16 years old when on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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