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Clara Thompson 1890 - 1976

Clara Thompson of Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois was born on September 12, 1890, and died at age 85 years old in May 1976.
Clara Thompson
Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois 62025
September 12, 1890
May 1976
Female
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    1890

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    September 12, 1890
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  • 05/dd
    1976

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    May 1976
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    Clara Thompson lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1890, in the year that Clara Thompson was born, 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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In 1920, she was 30 years old when on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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