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Bessie Willingham 1897 - 1972

Bessie Willingham of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama was born on January 16, 1897, and died at age 75 years old in July 1972.

Bessie Willingham

Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama 35212

January 16, 1897

July 1972

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January 16, 1897

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In 1897, in the year that Bessie Willingham was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".

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In 1904, at the age of merely 7 years old, Bessie was alive when the United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone. Now an unincorporated territory of the U.S., the Canal Zone had been previously held by the French, who were constructing a canal. The U.S. took over the construction of the Panama Canal and it was finally finished in 1914, when it was opened to commercial shipping. The United States held the Canal Zone until 1979.

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